Taxi (Narrativa (almuzara)) (Spanish Edition)

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Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. C Unavailable On order Request. Contemporary art and community altruism in Oaxaca: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Description Book — xi, pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates: It presents a theoretical framework that succinctly defines and discusses postmodernism as a globalising force in the development and use of creative expression, the media and communications technology in a postcolonial context.

The theoretical investigation is supported by ethnography that ascertains how hybrid political thought and community altruism characterise the behaviour and the aesthetic expression practised by a new generation of Oaxacan artists. Their collective action towards a pacifistic solution to the Oaxaca Conflict of , a six-month socio-political uprising caused by actual and historic conditions in the national, regional and universal Left-Right political duel, is detailed. The transdisciplinary approach makes the work very relevant for researchers, educators and students of social anthropology, visual communication and media studies, in addition to those interested in Oaxacan, Mexican and Latin American art and culture.

S6 P93 Unknown. Stanford University Press, [] Description Book — xiii, pages: The chapter examines the contested and unfinished process by which the borderlands and Mexican and Guatemalan nations took shape to contextualize how residents became marginalized from, yet also integrated into, two nation-states. It also challenges the idea that the border crossing is hidden or clandestine, pointing to how disruptions in state control over borders may be critical to the maintenance of state sovereignty at the margins.

Residents like Fani, Rosa, Daniela, and Ramon achieved dual nationality through extralegal means by certifying they were born in both countries. In a context where the legal processes to acquire nationality are ambiguous and illegible, residents circumvent the law while copying its semblances and logics. Documents, both real and fake, become unhinged from what they claim to represent: Documents take on a life of their own as residents value them to stake claims across nations.

Yet state officials and residents alike judge claims to belonging based on ethnicity, class, language, and politics, often irrespective of the actual documents. As residents use extralegal practices to bend the border to their advantage, they undermine state attempts to manage border populations as they simultaneously bring the state into being at the margins.

Corn, the basic subsistence crop in the region, as well as the most commonly smuggled good through this border, provides a window into understanding the local ethics that underpin the local legitimacy accorded to contraband. Residents reinterpreted corn smuggling as "free trade" in a context where official free trade provisions excluded them and decimated their livelihoods. To smuggle Mexican corn to Guatemala, border residents capitalized on a wider climate of political and economic crisis in the s to prevent state agents from monitoring the route. However, smuggling does little to remedy the plight of small farmers or address dispossession in the countryside as it may reinforce inequality and relations of political patronage.

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In the late s, border residents capitalized on a period of political and economic crisis and social movements to expel state officials from the route. They established their own control by erecting tollbooths, called cadenas, and levying taxes on smugglers. The cadenas materialize local control of the border through the chains that the communities use to demarcate their territory and regulate entry.

If smugglers or officials are uncooperative, the communities can raise the chains to block entry. However, rather than representing an autonomous border crossing, the chapter demonstrates how border vacillates between local control and official tolerance, reflecting wider tensions among security, trade, poverty, and political in stability. The nearby official border crossing has the appearance of a modern official post but is not technically authorized to process cross-border commerce.

At the same time, the wider region has grown from regional and cross-border commerce, much of which proceeds through unmonitored routes. Through the lens of "phantom commerce, " or clandestine commerce, which is technically invisible but nonetheless produces tangible effects, the chapter demonstrates the interdependences, rather than necessary antagonisms, among illicit flows, security, and formal trade. It details how smuggling is embedded in historical, community, kinship, and social relationships. Residents see the smuggling of basic goods as an ethical form of earning a living in the context of the historical importance of border trade, deteriorating economic opportunities, and exclusionary trade policies.

As intermediary smugglers, truckers, and cargo loaders, residents enable "phantom commerce" to distribute low-risk rewards to state agents, larger formal businesses, and other illicit actors. Even when border residents might benefit, the chapter shows how they also bear the risks. The conflict revealed the balance between an insistence on community benefits and the realities of profit and competition in a limited economy. As competing groups of border residents clashed over control of a lucrative gasoline smuggling trade, they unwittingly attracted the attention of state authorities, other regional actors, and the local media, culminating in a military raid in Yet the trade resumed shortly thereafter, albeit in a less overtly visible fashion.

This conflict illustrated evolving dynamics of governance at the border, which are increasingly complex as security becomes increasingly militarized and drug cartels, gangs, and larger-scale illicit networks gain regional influence. Drugs, Arms, and Migrants chapter abstractThe Conclusion brings the implications of the unsettled interdependences among the security, trade, and illegality up to the present to explore how the securitization of migration and drugs have combined to make everyday people less secure while generating increased flows across borders.

As Mexico cracks down on undocumented migration, corruption and violence have increased while migration continues. The case of migration is instructive for what a heavy-handed approach to extralegal activities without addressing underlying causes may portend. The chapter argues that it is important to examine why people engage in extralegal activities and how and under what conditions these activities become illegalized.

Otherwise, aggressive approaches to crime are not only likely to fail but also may further distrust in the state and its institutions and foster more insecurity and inequality. A Paradise for Contraband? As Mexico and Guatemala enter security and trade collaborations with the United States, why does more smuggling also appear to be occurring?

The chapter introduces the concept of securitized neoliberalism, to explain how the informal, illegal, and formal economy intertwine and how and why certain economic activities are privileged as others are increasingly criminalized. In the contexts of neoliberal reforms that dismantled agricultural livelihoods, borderland peasants intensified their reliance on smuggling goods across the border. To border residents, this constitutes legitimate business. This chapter sets the stage for a wider examination of how the informal and illegal economy exists in a complex symbiosis, rather than necessary tension, with state actors and the formal economy.

Nielsen Book Data The Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants, including petty smugglers of corn, clothing, and coffee. Challenging assumptions regarding security, trade, and illegality, Rebecca Berke Galemba details how these residents engage in and justify extralegal practices in the context of heightened border security, restricted economic opportunities, and exclusionary trade policies.

Rather than assuming that extralegal activities necessarily threaten the state and formal economy, Galemba's ethnography illustrates the complex ways that the formal, informal, legal, and illegal economies intertwine. Smuggling basic commodities across the border provides a means for borderland peasants to make a living while neoliberal economic policies decimate agricultural livelihoods.

Yet smuggling also exacerbates prevailing inequalities, obstructs the possibility of more substantive political and economic change, and provides low-risk economic benefits to businesses, state agents, and other illicit actors, often at the expense of border residents. Galemba argues that securitized neoliberalism values certain economic activities and actors while excluding and criminalizing others, even when the informal and illicit economy is increasingly one of the poor's only remaining options.

Contraband Corridor contends that security, neoliberalism, and illegality are interdependent in complex ways, yet how they unfold depends on negotiations between diverse border actors. Conversations with Diego Rivera: Monstruo en su laberinto. New Village Press, Description Book — xii, pages: A year of weekly interviews with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Pena disclose Rivera's iconoclastic views of life and the art world of that time. These intimate Sunday dialogues with what is surely the most influential Mexican artist of the twentieth century show us the free-flowing mind of a man who was a legend in his own time; an artist who escaped being lynched on more than one occasion, a painter so controversial that his public murals inspired movements, or, like the work commissioned by John D.

Rockefeller, were ordered torn down. Here in his San Angelin studio, we hear Rivera's feelings about the elitist aspect of paintings in museums, his motivations to create public art for the people, and his memorable, unedited expositions on the art, culture, and politics of Mexico.

The book has seven chapters that loosely follow the range of the author's questions and Rivera's answers. They begin with childlike, yet vast questions on the nature of art, run through Rivera's early memories and aesthetics, his views on popular art, his profound understanding of Mexican art and artists, the economics of art, random expositions on history or dreaming, and elegant analysis of art criticisms and critics.

The work is all the more remarkable to have been captured between Rivera's inhumanly long working stints of six hours or even days without stop. In his rich introduction, author Cardona-Pena describes the difficulty of gaining entrance to Rivera's inner sanctum, how government funtionaries and academics often waited hours to be seen, and his delicious victory.

I was able to explain my idea to him and he was immediately interested. He invited me into his studio, and while taking off his jacket, said, "Ask me A series of Alfredo Cardona-Pena's weekly interviews with Rivera were published in and in the Mexican newspaper, El Nacional, for which Alfredo was a journalist. His book of compiled interviews with introduction and preface, El Monstruo en su Laberinto, was published in Spanish in Finally, this extraordinary and rare exchange has been translated for the first time into English by Alfredo's half-brother Alvaro Cardona Hine, also a poet.

According to the translator's wife, Barbara Cardona-Hine, bringing the work into English was a labor of love for Alvaro, the fulfillment of a promise made to his brother in that he did not get to until the year before his own death in R5 A35 Unknown. The course of Mexican history []. Oxford University Press, [] Description Book — xvi, pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: University of Texas Press, Description Book — xi, pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: Summary Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Architecture, Historical Preservation, and Race Chapter 3.

Creating the Traditional, Creating the Modern Chapter 4. Creating Historical Patzcuaro Chapter 5. Nielsen Book Data In the s, the artistic and cultural patronage of celebrated Mexican president Lazaro Cardenas transformed a small Michoacan city, Patzcuaro, into a popular center for national tourism. Cardenas commissioned public monuments and archeological excavations; supported new schools, libraries, and a public theater; developed tourism sites and infrastructure, including the Museo de Artes e Industrias Populares; and hired artists to paint murals celebrating regional history, traditions, and culture.

The creation of Patzcuaro was formative for Mexico; not only did it provide an early model for regional economic and cultural development, but it also helped establish some of Mexico's most enduring national myths, rituals, and institutions. In Creating Patzcuaro, Creating Mexico, Jennifer Jolly argues that Patzcuaro became a microcosm of cultural power during the s and that we find the foundations of modern Mexico in its creation. Her extensive historical and archival research reveals how Cardenas and the artists and intellectuals who worked with him used cultural patronage as a guise for radical modernization in the region.

Jolly demonstrates that the Patzcuaro project helped define a new modern body politic for Mexico, in which the population was asked to emulate Cardenas by touring the country and seeing and embracing its land, history, and people. Ultimately, by offering Mexicans a means to identify and engage with power and privilege, the creation of Patzcuaro placed art and tourism at the center of Mexico's postrevolutionary nation building project.

P33 J65 Unknown. University of Oklahoma Press, [] Description Book — xiv, pages: R5 C Unknown. Dance and the arts in Mexico, Description Book — vii, pages: Nielsen Book Data Dance and the Arts in Mexico, tells the story of the arts explosion that launched at the end of the Mexican revolution, when composers, choreographers, and muralists had produced state-sponsored works in wide public spaces.

The book assesses how the "cosmic generation" in Mexico connected the nation-body and the dancer's body in artistic movements between and It first discusses the role of dance in particular, the convergences of composers and visual artists in dance productions, and the allegorical relationship between the dancer's body and the nation-body in state-sponsored performances. The arts were of critical import in times of political and social transition, and the dynamic between the dancer's body and the national body shifted as the government stance had also shifted.

Second, this book examines more deeply the involvement of US artists and patrons in this Mexican arts movement during the period. Given the power imbalance between north and south, these exchanges were vexed. Still, the results for both parties were invaluable. Ultimately, this book argues in favor of the benefits that artists on both sides of the border received from these exchanges. Almuzara, abril de G66 Unavailable At bindery Request. Open Society Foundations, Verdad, medios y violencia contra periodistas: M6 D45 Unavailable At bindery Request.

Los desbordes desde abajo: Ediciones Desde Abajo, Abril de Z53 Unavailable At bindery Request. Don't send flowers []. A seventeen-year-old girl has disappeared after a fight with her boyfriend that was interrupted by armed men, leaving the boyfriend on life support and the girl an apparent kidnap victim. It's a common occurrence in the region--prime narco territory--but the girl's parents are rich and powerful, and determined to find their daughter at any cost. O43 N Unavailable In process Request. Mexican migrants engage their home towns [].

Oxford University Press, [] Description Book — xv, pages: Mexico's experiments with disease prevention in the Age of Reason [].

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Paul Francis , author. Stanford University Press, [] Description Book — xi, pages: The Dramaturgy of Colonial Epidemics chapter abstractFrom to an outbreak of matlazahuatl, likely typhus, ravaged the Valley of Mexico. In Mexico City, public responses in the form of hospital care, processions, and numerous devotional acts were documented by Cayetano Cabrera y Quintero, an eyewitness and promoter of the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

His plague chronicle provides a point of departure for a deeper history of the dramaturgy of epidemic outbreaks, in which public pageantry and appeals to beloved saints transformed cities and towns into thoroughfares of saints and devotees.

This chapter examines how these performances were both sponsored by corporate bodies and solicited by laypeople well into the eighteenth century, when administrators aggressively pursued sanitation and hygiene campaigns alongside divine succor. The Nature of Medicine and the Fashion of Science chapter abstractPractices of publication and experimentation in the Atlantic world inspired physicians, natural philosophers, clerics, and others conversant in learning about climatic conditions, sanitation, and the sciences of anatomy, botany, chemistry, and statistics to forge connections with one another and with lay communities to improve medical care in New Spain.

Beginning in , the rise of a scientific periodical press in New Spain provided a novel means to collect and disseminate learning about health care, natural remedies, and scientific developments. In effect reproducing a conceit of colonial healing manuals, the print culture of the Enlightenment went further to shape a repository of vernacular knowledge from correspondents in cities, towns, and villages. Ultimately this venue failed to incorporate, as some hoped, a broader sector of the lower classes into scientific and medical practice.

Preventing Smallpox, chapter abstractAt the end of the century the viceregal government mandated anticontagion measures for communities and households affected by infectious disease. Finally implemented in and with the arrival of another epidemic of smallpox, the regime occasioned radical experiments in disease management and a turn to new medical paradigms of prevention.

Judicial inquiries, administrative correspondence, and legal briefs and petitions filed by guilds, village leaders, religious orders, and administrators conveyed the complaints and perspectives of peasants, artisans, merchants, priests, and district governors as they struggled over disease management in the intendancy of Oaxaca. Following months of social unrest, the viceregal government confirmed the technological shift already under way in rural villages by endorsing inoculation's widespread use. Domesticating Techniques chapter abstractHistorians of science observe that new technologies must be "domesticated" before they work.

Drawing on these insights, this chapter shows how immunization was first introduced in medical treatises, sermons, pastoral letters, legal briefs, and public ceremonies, as physicians, bishops, governors, and ministers aimed to convince parents and other caretakers of its value. These colonial genres and rituals, and eventually gifts of coins and cookies to entice parents and children, rendered preventive medicine safe, efficacious, and sacred for diverse publics and paved the way for the Royal Philanthropic Vaccination Expedition's introduction of Edward Jenner's cowpox vaccine.

Everyday Expertise through the Insurgency chapter abstractCeremonies to welcome vaccination teams and coax parents to submit their children were short lived, and in the chaotic decade of insurgency -a time of acute warfare, infection, and famine-the ability of a shattered colonial government to sustain programs of disease prevention was overwhelmed by a perennial shortage of funds. This chapter draws on newly available records of vaccination campaigns in Mexico during the insurgency to consider the kinds of healing skill and expertise involved in the propagation of vaccine in these years.

Priests, female healers, Spanish administrators, and Indian governors, as well as barbers and surgeons, helped coordinated vaccinations in campaigns that adhered to the dictates of disease outbreaks and warfare as often as those of medical professionals. An Oral History chapter abstractThe final chapter returns to the experience of medical reform in pueblos de indios, where rumors and political rituals mediated enlightened techniques, personnel, and reform programs. Political rituals allowed parents and Indian officials to assess and judge these medical interventions, discern efficacy, and occasionally shape more acceptable campaigns.

Rumors of enslavement, forced enlistment, witchcraft, and kidnapping had the effect of threatening flight from villages by parents and others into "regions of refuge, " which compelled negotiation by administrators to avoid aborted campaigns and lost revenue. In these ways laypeople were integral to the domestication and interpretation of Enlightenment treatments. Conclusion chapter abstractAt the end of the nineteenth century, doctors and scientists in Mexico helped the authoritarian government of Porfirio Diaz project an image of a modern nation to the world.

Despite medicine's professionalization, a dispute in downtown Mexico City in these years over whether the sacred spaces of a parish church might be used for vaccinations opens a window onto continued confusion over preventive medicine's proper place and identity. In part, confusion was a result of the role of rural priests in disease management and medical practice-- early vaccination campaigns only reinforced the overlapping of authority in the early Republic.

Continued struggles to immunize the population against disease in the nineteenth century warn against the tendency to see medical empiricism as neatly opposed to religious agents, rituals, or administration in the modern period. Minerva's Children chapter abstractThe introduction recounts the experiences of French physician Esteban Morel, who arrived in Mexico City in and immediately set about introducing inoculation among the upper classes during an epidemic of smallpox. Reluctant parents and rampant rumors of deformity and death stymied the inoculation campaign that year and suggest the critical role of nonprofessionals in colonial Mexico in healthcare reform.

In an age when European monarchs looked to govern from above the health of populations, the perspectives and sensibilities of laypeople in the socially heterogeneous barrios, subdistricts, and rural regions of New Spain remained pivotal. Experiments with disease and its control were critical moments in which amateur scientists, physicians, corporate sponsors, and lay communities came together to assess the merits of reform and the relevance of Atlantic practices and projects for their own lives.

Nielsen Book Data A history of epidemics and disease management in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Mexico, this book focuses on the multiethnic production of enlightened medical knowledge and traces shifts in how preventive treatment and public health programs were perceived and implemented by ordinary people.

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Paul Ramirez reconstructs the cultural, ritual, and political background of Mexico's early experiments with childhood vaccines, stepping back to consider how the public health response to epidemic disease was thoroughly enmeshed with religion and the church, the spread of Enlightenment ideas about medicine and the body, and the customs and healing practices of indigenous villages. Ramirez argues that it was not only educated urban elites-doctors and men of science-whose response to outbreaks of disease mattered.

Rather, the cast of protagonists crossed ethnic, gender, and class lines: By following the public response to anti-contagion measures in colonial Mexico, Enlightened Immunity explores fundamental questions about trust, uncertainty, and the role of religion in a moment of medical discovery and innovation. Temas 'de Hoy, M6 E88 Unavailable At bindery Request. Fandango at the Wall: Grand Central Publishing, Description Book — xxxvii, pages: Summary It's a history that has involved periods of great friendship with robust trade and loose immigration policies.

But the US-Mexican relationship has also been beset by wars, drug trade, and human trafficking. And with the latest Trump-induced xenophobia towards Mexico this book contextualizes how it is the latest swing in the up-and-down two-hundred-year history between these countries. M6 S Unavailable At bindery Request. Feathered serpent, dark heart of sky: Bowles, David David O.

Cinco Puntos Press, [] Description Book — pages: In the course of that history we learn about the Creator Twins-Feathered Serpent and Dark Heart of Sky-and how they built the world on a leviathan's back; of the shape-shifting nahualli; and the aluxes, elfish beings known to help out the occasional wanderer. And finally, we read Aztec tales about the arrival of the blonde strangers from across the sea, the strangers who seek to upend the rule of Motecuhzoma and destroy the very stories we are reading. Readers of Norse and Greek mythologies will delight in this rich retelling of stories less explored.

Legends and myths captured David Bowles's imagination as a young Latino reader; he was fascinated with epics like the Iliad and the Odyssey. This experience inspired him to reconnect with that forgotten past. Several of his previous books have incorporated themes from ancient Mexican myths. But bits and pieces survived. Through long research and imagination, David Bowles has woven together a remarkable tapestry of the whole, from the beginnings of the world to when Cortes first stepped onto the Continent.

R38 B69 Unknown. France, Mexico and informal empire in Latin America, Palgrave Macmillan, [] Description Book — x, pages: French Policy towards Latin America, Monarchy and the Search for Order in Mexico. The Limits of Informal Empire: French Intervention and the Mexican Second Empire. The standard narrative of nineteenth-century imperialism in Latin America is one of US expansion and British informal influence. However, it was France, not Britain, which made the most concerted effort to counter US power through Louis-Napoleon's military intervention in Mexico, begun in , which created an empire on the North American continent under the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian.

Despite its significance to French and Latin American history, this French imperial project is invariably described as an "illusion", an "adventure" or a "mirage". This book challenges these conclusions and places the French intervention in Mexico within the context of informal empire. It analyses French and Mexican ideas about monarchy in Latin America; responses to US expansion and the development of anti-Americanism and pan-Latinism; the consolidation of Mexican conservatism; and, finally, the collaboration of some Mexican elites with French imperialism. An important dimension of the relationship between Mexico and France, explored in the book, is the transatlantic and transnational context in which it developed, where competing conceptions of Mexico and France as nations, the role of Europe and the United States in the Americas and the idea of Latin America itself were challenged and debated.

From angel to office worker: University of Nebraska Press, [] Description Book — xvi, pages: Office Work and Commercial Education during the s 3. Writing and Activism in s Mexico City 4. Commercial Education and Writing during the s 6. Office Workers Organize during the s 7. Nielsen Book Data In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolution and jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere.

As these "angels of the home" began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous. To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment. At the heart of the women's movement was a labor movement led by secretaries and office workers whose demands included respect for seniority, equal pay for equal work, and resources to support working mothers, both married and unmarried.

Office workers also developed a critique of gender inequality and sexual exploitation both within and outside the workplace. From Angel to Office Worker is a major contribution to modern Mexican history as historians begin to ask new questions about the relationships between labor, politics, and the cultural and public spheres. From Santa Anna to Selena: Joseph, Harriett Denise, author. Napoleon of the West Erasmo and Juan N. Author Harriett Denise Joseph relates biographies of eleven notable Mexicanos and Tejanos, beginning with Santa Anna and the impact his actions had on Texas.

She discusses the myriad contributions of Erasmo and Juan Seguin to Texas history, as well as the factors that led a hero of the Texas Revolution Juan to be viewed later as a traitor by his fellow Texans. Admired by many but despised by others, folk hero Juan Nepomuceno Cortina is one of the most controversial figures in the history of nineteenth-century South Texas.

Preservationist and historian Adina De Zavala fought to save part of the Alamo site and other significant structures. Labor activist Emma Tenayuca's youth, passion, courage, and sacrifice merit attention for her efforts to help the working class. Joseph reveals the individual and collective accomplishments of a powerhouse couple, bilingual educator Edmundo Mireles and folklorist-author Jovita Gonzalez. Irma Rangel, the first Latina to serve in the Texas House of Representatives, is known for the many "firsts" she achieved during her lifetime.

Finally, we read about Selena's life and career, as well as her tragic death and her continuing marketability. Girlhood in the borderlands: Mexican teens caught in the crossroads of migration []. Summary The why of transnational familial formations Growing up transnational: Mexican teenage girls and their transnational familial arrangements Muchachas Michoacanas: How gender and generation shape perceptions of place and time as told through the voices of Mexican teenage girls This book examines the lived experiences of Mexican teenage girls raised in transnational families and the varied ways they make meaning of their lives.

Under the Bracero Program and similar recruitment programs, Mexican men have for decades been recruited for temporary work in the U. While the conditions for these adults who cross the border for work has been extensively documented, very little attention has been paid to the lives of those left behind. Over a six-year period, Lilia Soto interviewed more than sixty teenage girls in Napa, California and Zinapecuaro, Michoacan to reveal the ruptures and continuities felt for the girls surrounded by the movement of families, ideas, and social practices across borders.

As they develop their subjective selves, these Mexican teens find commonality in their fathers' absence and the historical, structural, and economic conditions that led to their movement. Tied to the ways U. In Girlhood in the Borderlands, Soto highlights the "structure of feeling" that girls from Zinapecuaro and Napa share, offering insight into the affective consequences of growing up at these social and geographic intersections. M6 S68 Unknown. Moreno Amador, Carlos, author.

Editorial Universidad de Sevilla: M74 Unavailable On order Request. Temas de Hoy, junio de P46 Z37 Unavailable At bindery Request. Grasses of Chihuahua, Mexico []. Herrera Arrieta, Yolanda, author. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Description Book — pages cm. Summary The revision of the grasses of Chihuahua includes species in 95 genera, 15 subspecies, 29 varieties, and 4 forms. We provide keys for determination, detailed descriptions, nomenclatural synonyms, ecological information on habitat, distribution based on herbarium specimens, and illustrations for species and eight varieties.

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We provide a new combination for Cenchrus polystachios subsp. Pepitas de calabaza s. M6 C66 Unavailable In transit Request. Caballero Guiral, Juncal, author. Ediciones Trea, [] Description Book — pages ; 20 cm. S8 C32 Unavailable At bindery Request. Common Ground Research Networks, M6 T67 Unknown. New Directions Publishing, Description Book — 77 pages ; 19 cm. R A Unknown. Description Book — x, pages: One wintry night at Tequilas I. From prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado comes the sweeping story of the great Mexican migration from the late s to today.

When Alfredo Corchado moved to Philadelphia in , he felt as if he was the only Mexican in the city. But in a restaurant called Tequilas, he connected with two other Mexican men and one Mexican American, all feeling similarly isolated. Over the next three decades, the four friends continued to meet, coming together over their shared Mexican roots and their love of tequila. Alfredo himself was a young reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Homelands merges the political and the personal, telling the story of the last great Mexican migration through the eyes of four friends at a time when the Mexican population in the United States swelled from , people during the s to more than 35 million people today.

It is the narrative of the United States in a painful economic and political transition. As we move into a divisive, nativist new era of immigration politics, Homelands is a must-read to understand the past and future of the immigrant story in the United States, and the role of Mexicans in shaping America's history.

A deeply moving book full of colorful characters searching for home, it is essential reading. M5 C67 Unknown. How does it feel to be unwanted? Beacon Press, [] Description Book — pages ; 23 cm Summary "Each of these 13 stories of Mexicans in the United States are rich and humanizing, illuminating the scope and breadth of a frequently stereotyped population.

Eileen Truax tells the stories of thirteen Mexican immigrants, some documented, some not living in America. Truax offers a comprehensive, highly personal portrait of the great diversity of the Mexican community by using the stories, words, and life experiences gathered from countless interviews. We learn about Jeanette Vizguerra, who came to symbolize the sanctuary movement when she took shelter in a church in Denver in February to avoid an order of deportation.

On April 20, she got a phone call telling her Time magazine had named her one of the most influential people in the world. After crossing the border illegally with his mother as a child, Al Labrada joined the military after high school to get on a path to citizenship; in March he was promoted to Captain in the Los Angeles Police Department. Many Mexicans in the United States are here legally, yet are still subject to the virulent anti-immigrant sentiment and bigotry that has existed for centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

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Regardless of status, many are subjected to rights violations, inequality, and violence--all of which existed well before the Trump administration--and have profound feelings of being unwanted in the country they call home"-- Provided by publisher. M5 T78 Unknown. The hydraulic system of Uxul: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [] Description Book — xxii, pages: U7 S44 Unavailable On order Request. Ravelo, Ricardo, author. Temas de Hoy, R45 R38 Unavailable At bindery Request. Indigenous peoples and the geographies of power: Mezcala's narratives of neoliberal governance []. The Local Impact of Political Culture 2.

The Transnationalisation Of Informal Power: A Fight to Define Progress 5. Legitimising or Challenging Stratifications? Conclusions Postface [John Holloway]. Nielsen Book Data Tracing key trends of the global-regional-local interface of power, Ines Duran Matute through the case of the indigenous community of Mezcala Mexico demonstrates how global political economic processes shape the lives, spaces, projects and identities of the most remote communities.

Throughout the book, in-depth interviews, participant observations and text collection, offer the reader insight into the functioning of neoliberal governance, how it is sustained in networks of power and rhetorics deployed, and how it is experienced. People, as passively and actively participate in its courses of action, are being enmeshed in these geographies of power seeking out survival strategies, but also constructing autonomous projects that challenge such forms of governance.

This book, by bringing together the experience of a geopolitical locality and the literature from the Latin American Global South into the discussions within the Global Northern academia, offers an original and timely transdisciplinary approach that challenges the interpretations of power and development while also prioritizing and respecting the local production of knowledge.

E79 D87 Unknown. Intent to initiate trade negotiations with Mexico and Canada: Government Publishing Office, Description Book — 2 pages ; 24 cm. Land, liberty, and water: Morelos after Zapata, []. Salinas, Salvador, author. Following the death of Emiliano Zapata in , the Zapatistas continued to lead the struggle for land reform. Land, Liberty, and Water offers a political and environmental history of the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution by examining the insurgency in the state of Morelos.

Salvador Salinas takes readers inside the diverse pueblos of the former Zapatistas during the s and s and recounts the first statewide land reform carried out in postrevolutionary Mexico. Based on extensive archival research, he reveals how an alliance with the national government that began in stimulated the revival of rural communities after ten years of warfare and helped once-landless villagers reclaim Morelos's valley soils, forested mountains, and abundant irrigation waters.

During the presidency of Plutarco Elias Calles , pueblos forged closer ties to the centralized government in Mexico City through a plethora of new national institutions, such as ejidos, forestry cooperatives, water juntas, credit societies, and primary schools. At the same time, the expansion of charcoal production in the Sierra de Ajusco and rice cultivation in the lowland valleys accelerated deforestation and intensified water conflicts.

Salinas recounts how the federal reforms embraced by the countryside aided the revival of the pueblos and, in return, villagers repeatedly came to the defense of an embattled national regime. Salinas gives readers interested in modern Mexico, the Zapatista revolution, and environmental history a deeply researched analysis of the outcomes of the nation's most famous revolutionary insurgency. Landscapes of the Itza: University Press of Florida, [] Description Book — xii, pages: Johnson In the shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Gregory Smith and Tara M.

Miller The Osario of Chichen Itza: Chichen Itza, the legendary capital and trading hub of the late Maya civilization, continues to fascinate visitors and researchers with unanswered questions about its people, rulers, rituals, and politics. Addressing many of these current debates, Landscapes of the Itza asks when the city's construction was completed, what the purposes of its famous pyramid and other buildings were, how the city's influence was felt in smaller neighboring settlements, and whether the city maintained strict territorial borders.

Special attention is given to the site's visual culture, including its architecture, ceramics, sculptures, and murals. This volume is a much-needed update on recent archaeological and art historical work being done at Chichen Itza, offering new ways of understanding the site and its role in the Yucatan landscape. C5 L36 Unknown. Mexican feminist, []. Description Book — xxx, pages: In the early s, when conservative religious thought permeated all aspects of Mexican life, she was one of very few women to gain admission to an extraordinary constellation of male poets, playwrights, and novelists, who were also the publicists and statesmen of the time.

She entered this world through her poetry, intellect, curiosity, assertiveness, but her personal life was fraught with tragedy: She later married another poet, Agustin Fidencio Cuenca, and had seven other children. All but two of her children died, as did Agustin. As a penniless young widow facing social rejection, Laura became a teacher and an important force in Mexico's burgeoning educational reform program.

She moved abroad-first to San Francisco, then St. In these places where she was not known and women had begun to move confidently in the public sphere, she could walk freely, observe, mingle, make friends across many circles, learn, think, and express her opinions. She wrote primarily for a Mexican public and always returned to Mexico because it was her country's future that she strove to create. Now, for the first time in English, Milada Bazant shares with us the trajectory of a leading Mexican thinker who applied the power of the pen to human feeling, suffering, striving, and achievement.

M Z Unknown. Laywomen and the making of colonial Catholicism in New Spain, []. Description Book — xiii, pages ; 24 cm. Laywomen and Religious Culture in New Spain: Public and scandalous sin-- 3. Ambivalent witnesses and local inquisitions-- Part II. Places and Practices of Cloister: Cloister for the poor and virtuous-- 5. Cloister for the unruly and unhappy-- 6. In the convent but not of it-- Epilogue: Delgado shows how laywomen participated in and shaped religious culture in significant ways by engaging creatively with gendered theology about women, sin, and guilt in their interactions with church sacraments, institutions, and authorities.

Taking a thematic approach, using stories of individuals, institutions, and ideas, Delgado illuminates the diverse experiences of urban and rural women of Indigenous, Spanish, and African descent.

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By centering the choices these women made in their devotional lives and in their relationships to the aspects of the church they regularly encountered, this study expands and challenges our understandings of the church's role in colonial society, the role of religion in gendered and racialized power, and the role of ordinary women in the making of colonial religious culture. Life beyond the boundaries: University Press of Colorado, [] Description Book — vi, pages: Herr and Karen G. Harry Frontiers of marginality and mediation in the North American Southwest: Peeples and Barbara J.

Harry and James T. Herr and Jeffery J. Jelinek and Dale S. S67 L54 Unknown. Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican culture []. Janzen, Rebecca, author. M6 J36 Unknown. The limits of liberty: Nichols, James David, author. University of Nebraska Press, [] Description Book — xv, pages: In this historic and timely study, James David Nichols argues against the many top-down connotations that borders carry, noting that the state cannot entirely dominate the process of boundary marking. Even though there were many efforts on the part of the United States and Mexico to define the new international border as a limit, mobile peoples continued to transgress the border and cross it with impunity.

Transborder migrants reimagined the dividing line as a gateway to opportunity rather than as a fence limiting their movement. Runaway slaves, Mexican debt peones, and seminomadic Native Americans saw liberty on the other side of the line and crossed in search of greater opportunity. In doing so they devised their own border epistemology that clashed with official understandings of the boundary. These divergent understandings resulted in violence with the crossing of vigilantes, soldiers, and militias in search of fugitives and runaways.

The Limits of Liberty explores how the border attracted migrants from both sides and considers border-crossers together, whereas most treatments thus far have considered discrete social groups along the border. Mining Mexican archival sources, Nichols is one of the first scholars to explore the nuance of negotiation that took place between the state and mobile peoples in the formation of borders. Olney, Patricia, author. The Multiplication of the PRI. The Case of Cacalchen. The Division of the PRI. The Case of Paracuaro. Anatomy of a Snowball Defeat. The Case of Hunucma.

Snowballs in Indigenous Municipalities. The Case of Chemax. Entrepreneurs and Transformational Defeats. The Case of Zamora. Nielsen Book Data Vicente Fox's election to the presidency inMexico marked the end of more than 70 years of rule by the PRI, overturning what some observers referred to as "the perfect dictatorship. Patricia Olney makes a rich, nuanced contribution to that debate, explainingMexico's transition to democracy from the perspective of municipal-level politics. Hollywood south of the border []. Reyes, Luis, author. Description Book — xix, pages: Now, for the first time, Made in Mexico: Hollywood South of the Border presents a comprehensive examination of more than one hundred Hollywood theatrical feature films made in Mexico between and the present day.

Lavishly illustrated throughout, Made in Mexico examines how Hollywood films depicted Mexico and how Mexico represented itself in relation to the films shot on location. It pulls back the curtain on how Hollywood filmmakers influenced Mexican films and Mexican filmmakers influenced Hollywood. Listed chronologically and featuring cast, credits, synopsis, and contemporary reviews along with a production history for each entry, this book highlights the concept of crossing borders, in which artists from both nations collaborated with one another.

Made in Mexico also provides a brief historical perspective on the aesthetics, economics, and politics of the film industries in each country, giving readers a glimpse of the external forces at play in the production of these films. With motion pictures permeating the cultural and historical landscape of both Mexico and the United States, this compulsively readable compendium demonstrates the far-reaching influences of the featured films on the popular culture of both nations.

M6 R49 Unknown. Richards, David Adams, author. R M37 Unknown. A massacre in Mexico: Verdadera noche de Iguala. London ; Brooklyn, NY: Description Book — xxviii, pages: On route to a protest, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Hernandez reconstructs almost minute-by-minute the events of those nights in late September , giving us what is surely the most complete picture available: Hernandez demolishes the Mexican state's official version, which the Pena Nieto government cynically dubbed the "historic truth".

As her research shows, state officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of the PRI administration, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing or manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of "suspects" who then obliged with full "confessions" that matched the official lie. By following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, Massacre in Mexico shows with exacting precision who is responsible for which component of this monumental crime.

M6 H Unknown. The matter of photography in the Americas []. But rarely are these artists considered leaders in discussions about the theory and scholarship of photography or included in conversations about the radical transformations of photography in the digital era. The Matter of Photography in the Americas presents the work of more than eighty artists working in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and Latino communities in the United States who all have played key roles in transforming the medium and critiquing its uses.

Artists like Alfredo Jaar, Oscar Munoz, Ana Mendieta, and Teresa Margolles highlight photography's ability to move beyond the impulse simply to document the world at large. Instead, their work questions the relationship between representation and visibility. With nearly full-color images, this book brings together drawings, prints, installations, photocopies, and three-dimensional objects in an investigation and critique of the development and artistic function of photography.

Essays on key works and artists shed new light on the ways photographs are made and consumed. Pressing at the boundaries of what defines culturally specific, photography-centric artwork, this book looks at how artists from across the Americas work with and through photography as a critical tool.

Maya potters' indigenous knowledge: University Press of Colorado, [] Description Book — xxx, pages: Arnold examines craftspeople's knowledge and skills, their engagement with natural and social environments, the raw materials, and their process"--Provided by publisher. P8 A Unknown.