Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Jennifer Jolly
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-24 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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In the 1930s, the artistic and cultural patronage of celebrated Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas transformed a small Michoacán city, Pátzcuaro, into a popu
Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Jennifer Jolly
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-24 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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LASA Visual Culture Studies Section Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Winner, Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin Ame
Finding Afro-Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 572
Authors: Theodore W. Cohen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. Finding Afro-Mexico reveals the tr
Artisans of Michoacán
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Travis M. Whitehead
Categories: Folk art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-01 - Publisher:

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Meet the people behind the art of Michoacán. Journalist Travis Whitehead spent eight months in Michoacán, Mexico exploring and visiting with artisans in their
The Book of Unknown Americans
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Cristina Henríquez
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-03 - Publisher: Vintage

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A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives b