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  • Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds

    Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America

    by Gregory Rodriguez ...
    An unprecedented account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican-Americans will have on the collective character of our nation.In considering the largest immigrant group in American history, Gregory Rodriguez examines the complexities of its heritage and of the racial and cultural synthesis--mestizaje--that has defined the Mexican people since the Spanish conquest in the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Narcoland

    The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers

    Translated by Iain Bruce, Lorna Scott Fox ...
    by Anabel Hernández ...
    This “investigative magnum opus” offers a jaw-dropping history of Mexican drug cartels as it transports readers to the frontlines of the ‘war on drugs’ in Latin America (Los Angeles Times).“A riveting story . . . [from] an incredibly brave journalist.” —NPRThe “war on drugs” has so far cost more than 60,000 lives. Hernández explains in riveting detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Chocolate and Corn Flour

    History, Race, and Place in the Making of "Black" Mexico

    by Laura A. Lewis ...
    Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority of the town's residents, however, call themselves morenos (black Indians). In Chocolate and Corn Flour, Laura A. Lewis explores the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Return of the Native

    Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930

    by Rebecca A. Earle ...
    Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century Spanish America. Rebecca Earle examines the place of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Watering the Revolution

    An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

    by Mikael D. Wolfe ...
    In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers’ distribution of water paradoxically undermined land ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Intimate Enemies

    Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas

    by Aaron Bobrow-Strain ...
    Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the state’s violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as “bad guys” with predetermined interests and obvious motives. Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes the landowners of Chiapas seriously, asking why ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Public Spectacles of Violence

    Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil

    by Rielle Navitski ...
    In Public Spectacles of Violence Rielle Navitski examines the proliferation of cinematic and photographic images of criminality, bodily injury, and technological catastrophe in early twentieth-century Mexico and Brazil, which were among Latin America’s most industrialized nations and later developed two of the region’s largest film industries. Navitski analyzes a wide range of sensational cultural ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Memoirs of Pancho Villa

    by Martín Luis Guzmán ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    "A frequently fascinating and probably fairly accurate insight into the most controversial character of the Mexican Revolution." — TimeMartín Luis Guzmán, eminent historian of Mexico, knew and traveled with Pancho Villa at various times during the Revolution. When many years later some of Villa's private papers, records, and what was apparently the beginning of an autobiography came into Guzmán's ... Read more

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  • Maturing Masculinities

    Aging, Chronic Illness, and Viagra in Mexico

    by Emily A. Wentzell ...
    Maturing Masculinities is a nuanced exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging, chronic illness, changing social relationships, and decreasing erectile function into their conceptions of themselves as men. It is based on interviews that Emily A. Wentzell conducted with more than 250 male patients in the urology clinic of a government-run hospital in Cuernavaca. Drawing on ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Time of Popular Sovereignty

    Process and the Democratic State

    by Paulina Ochoa Espejo ...
    Democracy is usually conceived as based on self-rule or rule by the people, and it is this which is taken to ground the legitimacy of the democratic form of government. But who constitutes the people? Democratic political theory has a potentially fatal weakness at its core unless it can answer this question satisfactorily. In The Time of Popular Sovereignty, Paulina Ochoa Espejo examines the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca

    Reading History in the Codex Zouche-Nuttall

    by Robert Lloyd Williams ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico; a part of one of them, the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, is the subject of this book. As a group, the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico

    by Jocelyn H. Olcott, Robyn Wiegman, Inderpal Grewal ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico is an empirically rich history of women’s political organizing during a critical stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott shows women activists challenging prevailing beliefs about the masculine foundations of citizenship. Piecing together material from national and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD