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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Mexican history"”.
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Middle Class Guerrilas: The Failure of the Mexican Student Revolutionaries to Build a Mass Movement
The Mexican Dirty War, which lasted almost two decades from its onset in the middle of the 1960s to its conclusion during the early 1980s, is a period of Mexican history that has received considerably less attention than the revolution that began the century and the drug war which ushered in the …
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High School Students' Perceptions fo the Treatment of the Mexican-American War in Textbooks: Results froma Private Bilingual Bicultural School in Mexico
… (Lowen, 1995, p. 13). The examination of Mexican and United States historical textbooks is a quantitative study. It focuses on high school students and their interpretations of historical textbook passages which particularly look at the Mexican American War. Many studies have been done on …
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The career of General Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1833)
The history of Mexico from 1821 to 1855 was a chronicle of continuous revolutions and counter-revolutions, and the history of those revolutions was incarnated in the career of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. So completely did his transcendental personality dominate the course of events in Mexico …
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The Myth of La Malinche: From the Chronicles to Modern Mexican Theater
In the changing discourse on Mexican history, La Malinche has evolved from a historical figure of the Conquest to a national myth and a symbol of all those who have allied themselves with foreigners against their own country and its native values and traditions. On the other hand, La Malinche is …
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The Colonizers and Their Colonized
… originally formulated by scholars of South Asian history in the context of European imperialistic treatments of the peoples whom they colonized for centuries, as applied to Mexican history. I have chosen some visual, cinematic, and literary representations of indigenous and other dispossessed …
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El Metro: The History of a Monument in Motion
… building a Metro. The Metro was also promoted as Mexican. In this narrative each stage of Mexican civilization had its great projects. The Aztec built the Templo mayor. The Spanish built the Cathedral; The Metro was the project of the modern era. This dissertation utilized a methodology that was …
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Designing a Culturally Relevant Curriculum for Immigrant Mexican American Fifth-Grade Students
… could be used with English language learning, Mexican American, immigrant, fifth grade children and study the responses they might have to that curriculum. The research questions were: What are the issues in developing a culturally relevant curriculum for Mexican American fifth graders? What …
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Retextualized transculturations: The emergence of La Malinche as figure in Chicana literature
… affirmation. In part inspired by the writings of Mexican author Rosario Castellanos, but largely in reaction to the misogynistic representations of Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes, Malintzin/Malinche, widely considered mother of the mestizo people as well as traitor and whore, became a pivotal …
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Understanding the Role of Women as Leaders in Mexican Politics: Looking Back and Moving Forward
… unimaginable. During the last forty years, the Mexican government has gone through a gradual transformation that has allowed women to become an active part of the political arena. Nevertheless, the path continues to be arduous, as deep-seated social values and prejudices still influence the …
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Francisco I. Madero, revolutionary
The violence of the Mexican Revolution in the years between 1914 and 1920 was shocking and disconcerting to those who had become accustomed to the peace and security of the Diaz administration. Numerous investigations into the causes and the nature of the Revolution, with its broad social and …
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Mexico y la Mexicanidad: Aura, donde confluyen el mito y la historia
When history commits, there can be harmony between the official historical discourse and the mythical discourse. In the case of México, the mythical usually exceeds discursive borders to prevail and report from a fictitious world, the official story. That is why Mexican history is ambiguous and …
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Selling Mexico: Race, Gender, and American Influence in Cancún, 1970-2000
… top international tourism resort, in modern Mexican history. It promotes a deeper understanding of Mexico’s social, economic, and cultural history in the late twentieth century. In particular, this study focuses on the rise of mass middle-class tourism American tourism to Mexico between 1970 …
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The Mexican Liberal Precursors and the United States Government, 1904-1912
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Santo Toribio: The Rise of a Saint
<p>Santo Toribio (1900-28) was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 2000 as a martyr of Mexico's bloody<em> Cristero</em> Rebellion. He enjoyed a modest local following for decades after the Rebellion as many of the other <em>Cristero</em> martyr-saints did. However, around the time of his …