The eagle and the virgin : nation and cultural revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 / edited by Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis.

Other author Vaughan, Mary K., 1942-
Other author Lewis, Stephen E., 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
Descriptionviii, 363 pages, 20 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Arts--Mexico. --History. --20th century.
Art and state--Mexico. --History. --20th century.
Nationalism--Mexico. --History. --20th century.
Identity (Psychology)--Mexico.
Ethnicity--Mexico.
Mexico--Civilization. --20th century.
Mexico--History. --1910-1946.

Contents The aesthetics of nation building -- The noche Mexicana and the exhibition of popular arts : two ways of exalting Indianness / Rick A. López -- The sickle, the serpent, and the soil : history, revolution, nationhood, and modernity in the murals of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros / Desmond Rochfort -- Painting in the shadow of the big three: Frida Kahlo / Sarah M. Lowe -- María Izquierdo / Adriana Zavala -- The Mexican experience of Marion and Grace Greenwood / James Oles -- Mestizaje and musical nationalism in Mexico / Marco Velázquez and Mary Kay Vaughan -- Revolution in the city streets : changing nomenclature, changing form, and the revision of public memory / Patrice Elizabeth Olsen -- Utopian projects of the state -- Saints, sinners, and state formation : local religion and cultural revolution in Mexico / Adrian A. Bantjes -- Nationalizing the countryside : schools and rural communities in the 1930s / Mary Kay Vaughan -- The nation, education, and the "Indian Problem" in Mexico, 1920-1940 / Stephen E. Lewis -- For the health of the nation : gender and the cultural politics of social hygiene in Revolutionary Mexico / Katherine E. Bliss -- Mass communications and nation building -- Remapping identities : road construction and nation building in postrevolutionary Mexico / Wendy Waters -- National imaginings on the air : radio in Mexico, 1920-1950 / Joy Elizabeth Hayes -- Screening the nation / Joanne Hershfield -- Social constructions of nation -- An idea of Mexico : Catholics in the Revolution / Jean Meyer -- Guadalajaran women and the construction of national identity / María Teresa Fernández Aceves -- "We are all Mexicans here": workers, patriotism, and union struggles in Monterrey / Michael Snodgrass -- Final reflections : what was Mexico's cultural revolution? / Claudio Lomnitz.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005028220
ISBN082233657X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822336685 (pbk. : alk. paper)