Mestizo modernity : race, technology, and the body in postrevolutionary Mexico /

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This book discusses the work of José Vasconcelos, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Emilio "El Indio" Fernández, El Santo, and Carlos Olvera. These artists--and many others--held diametrically opposed worldviews and used very different media while producing works during different deca...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dalton, David S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]
Series:Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America.
Subjects:
Mestizaje > Mexico.
Race awareness > Mexico > History.
Indians of Mexico > Mixed descent.
Conscience de race > Mexique > Histoire.
Métis > Mexique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
Mestizaje.
Race awareness.
Mexico.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Science and the (meta)physical body: a critique of positivism in the Vasconcelian utopia
  • Painting Mestizaje in a new light: racial, technological, and cultural hybridity in the murals of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco
  • Emilio Fernández, Gabriel Figueroa, and the race for Mexico's body: immunization and Lamarckian genetics
  • Colonizing resistance: liminal imperiality in the cinema of El Santo and in Carlos Olvera's Mejicanos en el Espacio.

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