The Mexico reader : history, culture, politics / edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 757-762) and index.

I. The Search for "Lo Mexicano" -- The Mexican Character / Joel Poinsett -- The Cosmic Race / Jose Vasconcelos -- The Sons of La Malinche / Octavio Paz -- The Problem of National Culture / Guillermo Bonfil Batalla -- Does It Mean Anything to Be Mexican / Roger Bartra -- Mexico City 1992 / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Two Ranchera Songs / Jose Alfredo Jimenez and Cuco Sanchez -- II. Ancient Civilizations -- The Origins of the Aztecs / Anonymous -- The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society / Inga Clendinnen -- Popol Vuh / Anonymous -- The Meaning of Maize for the Maya / J. Eric Thompson -- Omens Foretelling the Conquest / Anonymous -- III. Conquest and Colony -- The Spaniards' Entry into Tenochtitlan / Bernal Diaz del Castillo and Hernan Cortes -- Cortes and Montezuma / J. H. Eliott -- The Battles of Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco / Anonymous -- The Spiritual Conquest / Fray Jeronimo de Mendieta -- Why the Indians Are Dying / Alonso de Zorita -- The Colonial Latifundio / Enrique Florescano -- A Baroque Archbishop-Viceroy / Irving Leonard -- On Men's Hypocrisy / Sor Juana -- The Itching Parrot, the Priest, and the Subdelegate / Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi -- IV. Trials of the Young Republic -- The Siege of Guanajuato / Lucas Alaman -- Sentiments of the Nation / Jose Maria Morelos -- Plan of Iguala / Agustin de Iturbide -- Women and War in Mexico / Frances Calderon de la Barca -- The Glorious Revolution of 1844 / Guillermo Prieto -- Decimas Dedicated to Santa Anna's Leg / Anonymous -- War and Finance, Mexican Style / Juan Bautista Morales -- A Conservative Profession of Faith / The Editors of El Tiempo -- Considerations Relating to the Political and Social Situation / Mariano Otero -- Liberals and the Land / Luis Gonzalez y Gonzalez -- Standard Plots and Rural Resistance / Raymond B. Craib -- Offer of the Crown to Maximilian / Junta of Conservative Notables -- A Letter from Mexico / Empress Carlotta -- The Triumph of the Republic / Benito Juarez -- Pofirio Diaz Visits Yucatan / Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost -- Scenes from a Lumber Camp / B. Traven -- President Diaz, Hero of the Americas / James Creelman -- Gift of the Skeletons / Anonymous -- Mexican History in Photographs / John Mraz -- V. Revolution -- Land and Liberty / Ricardo Flores Magon -- Plan of Ayala / Emiliano Zapata -- The Restoration of the Ejido / Luis Cabrera -- Zapatistas in the Palace / Martin Luis Guzman -- Mexico Has Been Turned into a Hell / William O. Jenkins -- Pancho Villa / John Reed -- La Punitiva / Anonymous -- Pedro Martinez / Oscar Lewis -- Juan the Chamula / Ricardo Pozas -- The Constitution of 1917: Articles 27 and 123 -- An Agrarian Encounter / Rosalie Evans -- Ode to Cuauhtemoc / Carlos Pellicer -- The Socialist ABC's / Anonymous -- The Ballad of Valentin of the Sierra / Anonymous -- Mexico Must Become a Nation of Institutions and Laws / Plutarco Elias Calles -- The Formation of the Single-Party State / Carlos Fuentes -- The Rough and Tumble Career of Pedro Crespo / Gilbert M. Joseph and Allen Wells -- A Convention in Zacapu / Salvador Lemus Fernandez -- The Agrarian Reform in La Laguna / Fernando Benitez -- The Oil Expropriation / Josephus Daniels -- Cardenas and the Masses / Arturo Anguiano -- VI. The Perils of Modernity -- They Gave Us the Land / Juan Rulfo -- Mexico's Crisis / Daniel Cosio Villegas -- Struggles of a Campesino Leader / Ruben Jaramillo -- Art and Corruption / David Alfaro Siqueiros -- The Two Faces of Acapulco during the Golden Age / Andrew Sackett -- Mexico / Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett -- The Dark Deeds of "El Negro" Durazo / Jose Gonzalez G. -- The Sinking City / Joel Simon -- Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl / Roberto Vallarino -- Modesta Gomez / Rosario Castellanos -- VII. From the Ruins -- The Student Movement of 1968 / Elena Pomatowska -- El Santo's Strange Career / Anne Rubenstein -- After the Earthquake / Victims' Coordinating Council -- Letters to Cuauhtemoc Cardenas / Anonymous -- Corazon del Rocanrol / Ruben Martinez -- I Don't Believe Them at All / Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio -- Identity Hour / Carlos Monsivais -- The COCEI of Juchitan, Oaxaca: Two Documents / Leopoldo de Gyves de la Cruz / Cocei -- Women of Juchitan / Jeffrey W. Rubin -- EZLN Demands at the Dialogue Table / Zapatista Army of National Liberation -- The Long Journey from Despair to Hope / Subcomandante Marcos -- A Tzotzil Chronicle / Marian Peres Tsu -- Debtors' Revenge / Heather Williams -- Mexicans Would Not Be Bought, Coerced / Wayne A. Cornelius -- VIII. The Border and Beyond -- Plan of San Diego / Anonymous -- The Mexican Connection / Rudolfo Acuna -- The Maquiladoras / William Langewiesche -- Dompe Days / Luis Alberto Urrea -- Pedro P. Coyote / Judith Adler Hellman -- There's a Party Going On in Texas / Anonymous -- Two Poems about Immigrant Life / Pat Mora and Gina Valdes -- The Deadly Harvest of the Sierra Madre / Alan Weisman -- Two Songs about Drug Smuggling / Salome Gutierrez and Paulino Vargas -- The New World Border / Guillermo Gomez-Pena.

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