Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. I. The Aesthetics of Nation Building
7. The Noche Mexicana and the Exhibition of Popular Arts: TwoWays of Exalting Indianness 23
8. The Sickle, the Serpent, and the Soil: History, Revolution, Nationhood, and Modernity in the Murals of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros 43
9. Painting in the Shadow of the Big Three Frida Kahlo 58
10. María Izquierdo 67
11. The Mexican Experience of Marion and Grace Greenwood 79
12. Mestizaje and Musical Nationalism in Mexico 95
13. Revolution in the City Streets: Changing Nomenclature, Changing Form, and the Revision of Public Memory 119
14. II. Utopian Projects of the State
15. Saints, Sinners, and State Formation: Local Religion and Cultural Revolution in Mexico 137
16. Nationalizing the Countryside: Schools and Rural Communities in the 1930s 157
17. The Nation, Education, and the ‘‘Indian Problem’’ in Mexico, 1920–1940 176
18. For the Health of the Nation: Gender and the Cultural Politics of Social Hygiene in Revolutionary Mexico 196
19. III. Mass Communications and Nation Building
20. Remapping Identities: Road Construction and Nation Building in Postrevolutionary Mexico 221
21. National Imaginings on the Air: Radio in Mexico, 1920–1950 243
22. Screening the Nation 259
23. IV. Social Constructions of Nation
24. An Idea of Mexico: Catholics in the Revolution 281
25. GuadalajaranWomen and the Construction of National Identity 297
26. ‘‘We Are All Mexicans Here’’:Workers, Patriotism, and Union Struggles in Monterrey 314
27. Final Reflections WhatWas Mexico’s Cultural Revolution? 335
28. Contributors 351
29. Index 357