Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Antecedents of the images
  • Conquest
  • Gringo versus greaser in conquest fiction
  • Women of the conquest
  • Exploitation
  • The decline and fall of the Hispanic great house
  • The literary degradation of the Mexican
  • The cinematic degradation of the Mexican, 1894-1947
  • Repentance
  • The American as sinner-samaritan
  • Four faces of the Mexican in modern popular fiction
  • The Mexican in the movies, 1946-1976.