{"product_id":"9780816537532","title":"Modern Mexican Culture: Critical Foundations","description":"Diego Rivera’s mural \u003ci\u003eSueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating critique of high society and wealthy elites. It also offers a multitude of other stories that intersect in a web of historical memory. The massive mural, the histories it depicts, and even its physical journey after a devastating earthquake, hold answers to many of the questions readers might ask about Mexico. It also demonstrates how cultural artifacts explain the world around us and expose intersections and entanglements of specific power dynamics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eModern Mexican Culture\u003c\/i\u003e offers an enriching and deep investigation of key ideas and events in Mexico through an examination of art and history. Experts in Mexican cultural and literary studies cover the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre, the figure of the \u003ci\u003echarro\u003c\/i\u003e (cowboy), the construct of the postrevolutionary teacher, the class-correlated construct of \u003ci\u003egente decente\u003c\/i\u003e, a borderlands response to the rhetoric of dominance, and the “democratic transition” in late twentieth-century Mexico. Each essay is a rich reading experience, providing teachers and students alike with a deep and well-contextualized sense of Mexican life, culture, and politics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Each chapter provides a historical grounding of its topic, followed by a multifaceted analysis through various artistic representations that provide a more complex view of Mexico. Chapters are accompanied by lists of readily available murals, political cartoons, plays, pamphlets, posters, films, poems, novels, and other cultural products. \u003ci\u003eModern Mexican Culture\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the power of art and artists to question, explain, and influence the world around us.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Contributors:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rafael Acosta Morales\u003cbr\u003e Jacqueline E. Bixler\u003cbr\u003e Marta Caminero-Santangelo\u003cbr\u003e Debra A. Castillo\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Conway\u003cbr\u003e David S. Dalton\u003cbr\u003e Stuart A. Day\u003cbr\u003e Emily Hind\u003cbr\u003e Robert McKee Irwin\u003cbr\u003e Ryan Long\u003cbr\u003e Dana A. Meredith\u003cbr\u003e Magalí Rabasa\u003cbr\u003e Luis Alberto Rodríguez Cortés\u003cbr\u003e Fernando Fabio Sánchez\u003cbr\u003e Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado\u003cbr\u003e Analisa Taylor\u003cbr\u003e Oswaldo Zavala","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069395222768,"sku":"9780816537532","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780816537532_p0.jpg?v=1763748675","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780816537532","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}