List of Illustrations xii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction / Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis 1
I. The Aesthetics of Nation Building
The Noche Mexicana and the Exhibition of Popular Arts:
> 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 / Desmond Rochfort 43
Painting in the Shadow of the Big Three
Frida Kahlo / Sarah M. Lowe 53
Maria Izquierdo / Adrianna Zavala 67
The Mexican Experience of Marion and Grace Greenwood / James Oles 79
Mestizaje and Musical Nationalism in Mexico/ Marco Velazquez and Mary Kay
Vaughan 95
Revolution in the City Streets: Changing Nomenclature, Changing Form, and
the Revision of Public Memory / Patrice Elizabeth Olsen 119
II. Utopian Projects of the State
Saints, Sinners, and the State Formation: Local Religion and Cultural
Revolution in Mexico / Adrian A. Bantjes 137
Nationalizing the Countryside: Schools and Rural Communities in the 1930’s
/ Mary Kay Vaughan 157
The Nation, Education, and the “Indian Problem” in Mexico, 1920–1940 /
Stephen E. Lewis 176
For the Health of the Nation: Gender and the Cultural Politics of Social
Hygiene in Revolutionary Mexico / Katherine E. Bliss 196
III. Mass Communication and Nation Building
Remapping Identities: Road Construction and Nation Building in
Postrevolutionary Mexico / Wendy Waters 221
National Imaginings on the Air: Radio in Mexico, 1920–1950 / Joy Elizabeth
Hayes 243
Screening the Nation / Joanne Hershfield 259
IV. Social Construction of Nations
An Idea of Mexico: Catholics in the Revolution / Jean Meyer 281
Guadalajaran Women and the Construction of National Identity / Maria Teresa
Fernandez Aceves 297
“We Are All Mexicans Here”: Workers, Patriotism, and Union Struggles in
Monterrey / Michael Snodgrass 314
Final Reflections: What Was Mexico’s Cultural Revolution? / Claudio Lomnitz
335
Contributors 351
Index 357
