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The Eagle and the Virgin
Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940
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2006
About this book
Collection of essays, aimed at an undergraduate audience, focusing on cultural policy and production after the Mexican revolution.
Author / Editor information
Mary Kay Vaughan is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her books include Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930–1940. She is a coeditor of the journal Hispanic American Historical Review.
Stephen E. Lewis is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Chico. He is the author of The Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chiapas, 1910–1945.
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“The Eagle and the Virgin is a necessary book, a selection of essays which allows readers to see in detail how a nation is invented and reinvented, how it experiences its achievements and its customs, both the good and the bad; and how it is internationalized and nationalized (since by 1940 Mexico was both a more cosmopolitan country and a more Mexican one). A delightful work.”—Carlos Monsiváis
“Steeped in a generation of new cultural and transnational analysis of state formation and popular expression, The Eagle and the Virgin raises the bar for studies of nation building and cultural politics in postrevolutionary Mexico. Particularly impressive is the volume’s sensitive analysis of contests over religious culture and symbols, its gendered understanding of state formation, and its handsomely illustrated treatment of the development of a Mexican revolutionary aesthetic.”—Gilbert M. Joseph, coeditor of The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics
“The 16 essays that Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis have compiled here inventively probe and synthesize the synergistic processes of nation building and cultural revolution that characterized Mexico in the period from 1920 to 1940. . . . The vibrancy and variety of these essays remind us that culture is integral to any analysis of this crucial period in the formation of Mexican national identity, because Mexico’s cultural revolution is so inimitable in its many contested manifestations. As this volume demonstrates, its very creativity and inconsistency are fundamental to understanding the complexity of the interactions that took place between the state and popular sectors.”
-- Susan M. Deeds Hispanic American Historical Review
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - I. The Aesthetics of Nation Building
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The Noche Mexicana and the Exhibition of Popular Arts: TwoWays of Exalting Indianness
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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
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Painting in the Shadow of the Big Three Frida Kahlo
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María Izquierdo
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The Mexican Experience of Marion and Grace Greenwood
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Mestizaje and Musical Nationalism in Mexico
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Revolution in the City Streets: Changing Nomenclature, Changing Form, and the Revision of Public Memory
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Saints, Sinners, and State Formation: Local Religion and Cultural Revolution in Mexico
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Nationalizing the Countryside: Schools and Rural Communities in the 1930s
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The Nation, Education, and the ‘‘Indian Problem’’ in Mexico, 1920–1940
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For the Health of the Nation: Gender and the Cultural Politics of Social Hygiene in Revolutionary Mexico
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Remapping Identities: Road Construction and Nation Building in Postrevolutionary Mexico
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National Imaginings on the Air: Radio in Mexico, 1920–1950
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Screening the Nation
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An Idea of Mexico: Catholics in the Revolution
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GuadalajaranWomen and the Construction of National Identity
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‘‘We Are All Mexicans Here’’:Workers, Patriotism, and Union Struggles in Monterrey
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Final Reflections WhatWas Mexico’s Cultural Revolution?
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Contributors
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Index
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March 13, 2006
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9780822387527
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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396
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36 illustrations (20 in color)
