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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Mexico
Author: (Re)Constructing Memory: Textbooks, Identity, Nation, and State
Author: James H. WilliamsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9463005099
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This book engages readers in thirteen conversations presented by authors from around the world regarding the role that textbooks play in helping readers imagine membership in the nation. Authors’ voices come from a variety of contexts – some historical, some contemporary, some providing analyses over time. But they all consider the changing portrayal of diversity, belonging and exclusion in multiethnic and diverse societies where silenced, invisible, marginalized members have struggled to make their voices heard and to have their identities incorporated into the national narrative. The authors discuss portrayals of past exclusions around religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, as they look at the shifting boundaries of insider and outsider. This book is thus about “who we are” not only demographically, but also in terms of the past, especially how and whether we teach discredited pasts through textbooks. The concluding chapters provides ways forward in thinking about what can be done to promote curricula that are more inclusive, critical and positively bonding, in increasingly larger and more inclusive contexts.
Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era
Author: Dennis GilbertPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816550107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Mexico’s modern middle class emerged in the decades after World War II, a period of spectacular economic growth and social change. Though little studied, the middle class now accounts for one in five Mexican households. This path-breaking book explores the changing fortunes and political transformation of the middle class, especially during the last two decades, as Mexico has adopted new, market-oriented economic policies and has abandoned one-party rule. Blending the personal narratives of middle-class Mexicans with analyses of national surveys of households and voters, Dennis Gilbert traces the development of the middle class since the 1940s. He describes how middle-class Mexicans were affected by the economic upheavals of the 1980s and 1990s and examines their shifting relations with the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). Long faithful to the PRI, the middle class gradually grew disenchanted. Gilbert examines middle-class reactions to the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, the 1982 debt crisis, the government’s feeble response to the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, and its brazen manipulation of the vote count in the 1988 presidential election. Drawing on detailed interviews with Mexican families, he describes the effects of the 1994–95 peso crisis on middle-class households and their economic and political responses to it. His analysis of exit poll data from the 2000 elections shows that the lopsided middle-class vote in favor of opposition candidate Vicente Fox played a critical role in the election that drove the PRI from power after seven decades. The book closes with an epilogue on the middle class and the July 2006 presidential elections.
Area Handbook for Mexico
Author: Thomas E. WeilPublisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Education in a Changing Mexico
Author: Clark C. GillPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Petroleum And Mexico's Future
Author: Pamela S FalkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000302148
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Addressing the effects of the 1982 crisis, through the late 1980s, on Mexico's economic and political systems and assessing the country's potential for entering a period of strong economic growth, contributors to this volume focus on oil, the primary source of Mexico's foreign exchange earnings, and on trade with the United States, the primary mean
Mexico, a Country Study
Author: James D. RudolphPublisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Mexico
Author: Fran HodgkinsPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736824798
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, and culture of Mexico in a question-and-answer format.
Mexico
Author: Don M. CoerverPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851095179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A concise overview of 20th- and 21st-century Mexico, this volume explores the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the world's largest Spanish-speaking country. From NAFTA to narcotics, from immigration to energy, the ties that bind our nation and Mexico are varied and strong. Mexico uncovers the real Mexico that lies behind the stereotypes of tacos, tequila, and tourist hotels. Compiled by leading scholars of Mexican history and society, its more than 150 entries examine the nation in all its fascinating contradictions and complexity. This concise yet thorough study, covering the last 100 years of Mexican history, is the only one volume, A–Z reference work available to students, scholars, and readers curious about one of the world's most diverse and dynamic societies. What was the Mexican Revolution all about? Who are the Zapatistas? And why do Mexicans celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Mexicans are America's largest immigrant group and Mexico is America's favorite tourist destination. Yet we need to learn more and understand better our fascinating neighbor to the south. Mexico—comprehensive and accessible—is the best place to start.
Education in Changing Mexico
Author: United States. Education OfficePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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