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This chapter focuses on the ways in which the arts have been used to construct a specific aspect of Mexican nationalism: the national identity—more precisely, the mestizo (or Spanish and indigenous) national identity that was a central part of Mexico’s postrevolutionary ideology throughout the twentieth century. The evolving content of this identity is crucial for understanding how Mexicans have confronted colonization, revolution, and now globalization.
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Jaime del Arenal Fenochio, “La desmitificación de la historia de México,” Istmo 204 (1993): 4–8.
Quoted in Salvador Velazco, “Entrevista con Salvador Carrasco,” La Jornada Semanal (1999): 4.
Walter D. Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1995): 167.
Ahumada, Helguera, El Fisgón, Luis Fernando, Magú, Rocha, and Ulises, “El Ahuizotl,” La Jornada 12 (1992): 3.
Additional sources for this essay include Political Database of the Americas (2001), http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/Constitutions/Mexico/mexico2001.html; Rafael Barajas, “El Fisgón,” in Cómo sobrevivir al neoliberalismo sin dejar de ser mexicano (Mexico City: Grijalbo, 1996).
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Chorba, C.C. (2010). Mexico from Mestizo to Multicultural. In: Ascher, W., Heffron, J.M. (eds) Cultural Change and Persistence. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117334_9
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