The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics

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The Mexico Reader

History, Culture, Politics

Edited by: Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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The Latin America Readers

About this book

This revised and updated edition of The Mexico Reader provides an expansive and comprehensive guide to the many varied histories and cultures of Mexico, from pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century.

Author / Editor information

Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor Emeritus of History and International Studies at Yale University and author, coauthor, and editor of many books, including Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century, also published by Duke University Press.

Timothy J. Henderson was a Distinguished Research Professor of History at Auburn University at Montgomery before retiring in 2021. He is the author of several books on Mexican history.

Reviews

“A wonderful introduction to the history and culture of Mexico. . . . This work is ideal for general readers, and one hopes it will encourage many to read and learn more about this important and diverse nation.”

-- Jay Freeman, The Booklist (praise for the first edition)

“Anyone who has a keen interest in Mexico—in delving deep into the country’s rich history and culture before going there—would be fascinated by this book.”

-- June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune (praise for the first edition)

“There is an impressive, even passionate, commitment to excavating the embedded cultural, political, and economic reference points that arguably constitute something called a Mexican nationalist imaginary. At the same time, the editors have methodologically sought out the contradictions of that imaginary, offering both official, and many unofficial, voices. The result simultaneously exposes and subverts the nation’s foundational fictions.”

-- Eric Zolov, Hispanic American Historical Review (praise for the first edition)

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History Topics in History Global History

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Praise for the First Edition of The Mexico Reader Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
A Note on Style Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Map of Mexico Publicly Available Download PDF	xviii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I The Search for “Lo Mexicano”
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
The Mexican Character Joel Poinsett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
The Cosmic Race José Vasconcelos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
The Sons of La Malinche Octavio Paz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
The Problem of National Culture Guillermo Bonfil Batalla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
How to Tame a Wild Tongue Gloria Anzaldúa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Mexico City 1992 Alma Guillermoprieto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Two Ranchera Songs José Alfredo Jiménez and Cuco Sánchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
II Ancient Civilizations
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
The Origins of the Aztecs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
The Feast of the Flaying of Men Inga Clendinnen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
The Totocalli (Motecuhzoma’s “Zoo”) Andrés Bustamante Agudelo and Israel Elizalde Méndez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
The Meaning of Maize for the Maya J. Eric Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Omens Foretelling the Conquest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
III Conquest and Colony
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
The Spaniards’ Entry into Tenochtitlán Bernal Díaz del Castillo and Hernán Cortés Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Cortés and Montezuma J. H. Elliott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
The Battles of Tenochtitlán and Tlatelolco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The Spiritual Conquest Fray Jerónimo de Mendieta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Why the Indians Are Dying Alonso de Zorita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
A Baroque Archbishop-Viceroy Irving Leonard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
On Men’s Hypocrisy Sor Juana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Whites, Negroes, and Castes Alexander von Humboldt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
The Itching Parrot, the Priest, and the Subdelegate José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
IV Trials of the Young Republic
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
The Siege of Guanajuato Lucas Alamán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Sentiments of the Nation, or Points Outlined by Morelos for the Constitution José María Morelos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Plan of Iguala Agustín de Iturbide Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Women and War in Mexico Frances Calderón de la Barca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
The Glorious Revolution of 1844 Guillermo Prieto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Décimas Dedicated to Santa Anna’s Leg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
A Conservative Profession of Faith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Considerations relating to the Political and Social Situation of the Mexican Republic in the Year 1847 Mariano Otero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Liberals and the Land Luis González y González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Standard Plots and Rural Resistance Raymond B. Craib Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Offer of the Crown to Maximilian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
A Letter from Mexico Empress Carlota Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
The Triumph of the Republic, 1867 Benito Juárez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Porfirio Díaz Visits Yucatán Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Scenes from a Lumber Camp B. Traven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
President Díaz, Hero of the Americas James Creelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Gift of the Skeletons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Special Section
What Can Photographs Tell Us about Mexico’s History? John Mraz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
V Revolution
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Land and Liberty Ricardo Flores Magón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Plan of Ayala Emiliano Zapata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
The Restoration of the Ejido Luis Cabrera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Zapatistas in the Palace Martín Luis Guzmán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Mexico Has Been Turned into a Hell William O. Jenkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
Pancho Villa John Reed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
La Punitiva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
Pedro Martínez Oscar Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Amelio Robles’s Gender Battles in the Zapatista Army Gabriela Cano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
Juan the Chamula Ricardo Pozas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
The Constitution of 1917: Articles 27 and 123 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
An Agrarian Encounter Rosalie Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Ode to Cuauhtémoc Carlos Pellicer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	356
The Socialist ABC’s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
The Ballad of Valentín of the Sierra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Mexico Must Become a Nation of Institutions and Laws Plutarco Elías Calles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	370
The Formation of the Single-Party State Carlos Fuentes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
The Rough-and- Tumble Career of Pedro Crespo Gilbert M. Joseph and Allen Wells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
A Convention in Zacapu Salvador Lemus Fernández Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
The Agrarian Reform in La Laguna Fernando Benítez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
The Oil Expropriation Josephus Daniels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
VI The Perils of Modernity
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
They Gave Us the Land Juan Rulfo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Mexico’s Crisis Daniel Cosío Villegas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	412
Struggles of a Campesino Leader Rubén Jaramillo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Art and Corruption David Alfaro Siqueiros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
The Two Faces of Acapulco during the Golden Age Andrew Sackett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	440
The Dark Deeds of “El Negro” Durazo José G. González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	448
The Sinking City Joel Simon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl: Souls on the Run Roberto Vallarino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
Roma Exposes Mexico’s Darkest Secret Marcela García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	476
Modesta Gómez Rosario Castellanos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	482
La Costa Chica and the Struggles of Mexico’s “Third Root” Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	490
Images of Afro-Mexican Mobilization on the Costa Chica in the 2010s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	494
VII From the Ruins
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
The Student Movement of 1968 Elena Poniatowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	501
El Santo’s Strange Career Anne Rubenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	515
After the Earthquake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	524
Letters to Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	534
Identity Hour, or What Photos Would You Take of the Endless City? (From a Guide to Mexico City) Carlos Monsiváis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	540
The Political Manifesto of the COCEI of Juchitán, Oaxaca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	546
Women of Juchitán Jeffrey W. Rubin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	550
EZLN Demands at the Dialogue Table Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	561
A Tzotzil Chronicle of the Zapatista Uprising Marián Peres Tsu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	569
Debtors’ Revenge: The Barzón Movement’s Struggle against Neoliberalism Heather Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	583
VIII The Border and Beyond
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	595
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Nicholas Trist, Luis Cuevas, Bernardo Couto and Miguel Atristain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	599
Plan of San Diego Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	604
The “Wetback Invasion” Timothy J. Henderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	607
The High Cost of Deportation Julia Preston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	616
A Honduran Teenager’s Journey across Borders Sonia Nazario Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	627
Two Poems about Immigrant Life Pat Mora and Gina Valdés Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	645
The Maquiladora Workers of Juárez Find Their Voice David Bacon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	648
Dompe Days Luis Alberto Urrea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	654
Two Songs about Drug Smuggling Paulino Vargas and Chalino Sánchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	662
“We Are More American” Enrique Valencia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	665
IX From the Perfect Dictatorship to an Imperfect Democracy
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	667
Mexicans Would Not Be Bought, Coerced Wayne A. Cornelius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	679
Assessing NAFTA: Before and After Mark Weisbrot and Vicente Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	682
Ayotzinapa: A Father’s Testimony John Gibler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	687
The Narco Who Died Twice Ioan Grillo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	694
AMLO on Corruption Andrés Manuel López Obrador Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	702
The Promise and Peril of López Obrador Denise Dresser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	708
Traditional Medicine in Modern Mexico and the Challenge of COVID-19 Gabriela Soto Laveaga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	718
Should I Die Abroad, Bring Me Back to Mexico Jorge Ramos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	733
Suggestions for Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	737
Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	747
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	757

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August 29, 2022

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9781478022978

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800

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478022978

eBook ISBN: 9781478022978

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