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  • The Huasteca

    Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange

    The Huasteca, a region on the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico, was for centuries a pre-Columbian crossroads for peoples, cultures, arts, and trade. Its multiethnic inhabitants influenced, and were influenced by, surrounding regions, ferrying unique artistic styles, languages, and other cultural elements to neighboring areas and beyond. In The Huasteca: Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange, a ... Leer más

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  • Fire & Blood

    A History of Mexico

    Mexican history comes to life in this "fascinating" work by the author of Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans ( The Christian Science Monitor).Fire & Blood brilliantly depicts the succession of tribes and societies that have variously called Mexico their home, their battleground, and their legacy. This is the tale of the indigenous people who forged from this rugged terrain a wide-ranging ... Leer más

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  • The Short Long Book

    A Portrait of Michael Long, the Man Who Changed the Australian Game

    A portrait of Michael Long, the man who changed the Australian game.In 1995, Aboriginal footballer Michael Long gave the AFL its ‘Mandela moment’. He quietly revolutionised Australian sport by refusing to let a racial insult pass during the Anzac Day match between Essendon and Collingwood. When the overwhelmingly white football public backed a black man against a white institution (the AFL), the ... Leer más

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  • Unsettled Expectations

    Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization

    de Eva Mackey ...
    What do local conflicts about land rights tell us about Indigenous-settler relations and the challenges and possibilities of decolonization? In Unsettled Expectations, Eva Mackey draws on ethnographic case studies about land rights conflicts in Canada and the U.S. to argue that critical analysis of present-day disputes over land, belonging and sovereignty will help us understand how colonization ... Leer más

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  • Forgotten Dead

    Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928

    Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In Forgotten Dead, William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb uncover a comparatively neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent. Over eight decades lynch mobs murdered hundreds of Mexicans, ... Leer más

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  • The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the ... Leer más

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  • The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco

    Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

    Winner, Charles Rufus Morey Award, 1993The valley of Malinalco, Mexico, long renowned for its monolithic Aztec temples, is a microcosm of the historical changes that occurred in the centuries preceding and following the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. In particular, the garden frescoes uncovered in 1974 at the Augustinian monastery of Malinalco document the collision of the European ... Leer más

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  • Stand Up and Fight

    Participatory Indigenismo, Populism, and Mobilization in Mexico, 1970–1984

    In 1975 a watershed moment captivated Mexico as indigenous peoples from across the country came together on the Island of Janitzio for the First National Congress of Indigenous Peoples. The congress was a federal government initiative intended to preempt an independent indigenous movement. But indigenous groups circumvented the intended containment policies of the congress and made bold demands ... Leer más

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  • The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico

    Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent

    Series series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
    In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or “crowned nuns,” that picture their subjects in regal trappings at the moment of their religious profession and in death. This study identifies these portraits as markers of a vibrant and changing society that fused ... Leer más

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  • Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy

    Edición de Galen Brokaw, Jongsoo Lee ...
    Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl is one of the most controversial and provocative Mexican chroniclers from the colonial period. A descendant of both the famous Prehispanic poet-king Nezahualcoyotl and Hernán Cortés’s ally Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, he penned chronicles that rewrote Prehispanic and colonial history. Traditionally known as a Europeanized historian of Tetzcoco, he wrote prolifically, ... Leer más

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  • The Learned Ones

    Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico

    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    They were the healers, teachers, and writers, the “wise ones” of Nahuatl-speaking cultures in Mexico, remembered in painted codices and early colonial manuscripts of Mesoamerica as the guardians of knowledge. Yet they very often seem bound to an unrecoverable past, as stereotypes prevent some from linking the words “indigenous” and “intellectual” together.Not so, according to author Kelly S. ... Leer más

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  • Crafting Mexico

    Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution

    After Mexico’s revolution of 1910–1920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the country’s diverse populace. Their efforts resulted in an “ethnicized” interpretation of Mexicanness that intentionally incorporated elements of folk and indigenous culture. In this rich history, Rick A. López explains how thinkers and artists, including the anthropologist Manuel Gamio, the ... Leer más

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