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The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 by Mary Kay Vaughan

Authors: Mary Kay Vaughan (Editor), Stephen Lewis (Editor), Rick A. Lopez (Contribution by), Desmond Rochfort
ISBN-13: 9780822336686, ISBN-10: 0822336685
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Mary Kay Vaughan

Mary Kay Vaughan is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her books include Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930–1940. She is a coeditor of the journal Hispanic American Historical Review.

Stephen E. Lewis is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Chico. He is the author of The Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chiapas, 1910–1945.

Book Synopsis

Collection of essays, aimed at an undergraduate audience, focusing on cultural policy and production after the Mexican revolution.

	The Noche Mexicana and the exhibition of popular arts : two ways of exalting Indianness	23
	The sickle, the serpent, and the soil : history, revolution, nationhood, and modernity in the murals of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros	43
	Frida Kahlo	58
	Maria Izquierdo	67
	The Mexican experience of Marion and Grace Greenwood	79
	Mestizaje and musical nationalism in Mexico	95
	Revolution in the city streets : changing nomenclature, changing form, and the revision of public memory	119
	Saints, sinners, and state formation : local religion and cultural revolution in Mexico	137
	Nationalizing the countryside : schools and rural communities in the 1930s	157
	The nation, education, and the "Indian problem" in Mexico, 1920-1940	176
	For the health of the nation : gender and the cultural politics of social hygiene in revolutionary Mexico	196
	Remapping identities : road construction and nation building in postrevolutionary Mexico	221
	National imaginings on the air : radio in Mexico, 1920-1950	243
	Screening the nation	259
	An idea of Mexico : Catholics in the revolution	281
	Guadalajaran women and the construction of national identity	297
	"We are all Mexicans here" : workers, patriotism, and union struggles in Monterrey	314
	Final reflections : what was Mexico's cultural revolution?	335