A diverse collection of observations on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico by non-Mexican authors.
Unabridged reprint of the classic 1929 edition. 118 black-and-white illustrations.
Mexicans, since national independence, have defined their challenges as problems or dimensions in their lives.
Soto (Chicano studies, Cal.
Deanna Heikkinen has translated Here's to You , Jesusa ! and Skin of the Sky , both by Elena Poniatowska . ... Miraculous Air : Journey of a Thousand Miles Through Baja , California , the Other Mexico ; and Sky over El Nido , which won ...
From the fierce evocations of Chicano reality in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Poem IX to the breathtaking images of identity in Coral Bracho’s poem “Fish of Fleeting Skin,” from the work of Carlos Fuentes to Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo ...
When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, he is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his own Mexican ancestry—from the brilliance and brutality of the ancients, to the iron fist ...
... Weston's former lover, when she lived in the USSR in the 1930s. Many of Weston's Mexican photographs are similar to the shots Eisenstein planned to use in Que Viva Mexico! In Amy Conger's Edward Weston in Mexico, 1923-1926 ...
Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer’s part in the rebellion against Porfirio Díaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in the cause ...
Regional elites, in particular, were put off by the encroaching power of foreign capitalists like U.S. oil baron Edward Doheny and members of the British Pearson firm, who profited greatly from oil production, railroading, and ranching.