CONEXIONES 2010 Program in Michoacán, Mexico

Reading List

Required text: The Mexico Reader, ed. Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

Students are not required to read the entire book. Rather, students should read the
selections indicated below, which correspond to one of the book’s eight sections.
Many of these essays are very short. Please make sure to read the introduction to
each section, which will provide you with a historical overview. All selections are
from The Mexico Reader.

I The Search for “Lo Mexicano” Play of Ayala

Introduction Pancho Villa
The Mexican Character A Convention in Zacapu
The Cosmic Race The Oil Expropriation
The Sons of La Malinche Cárdenas and the Masses
The Problem of National Culture
Does it Mean Anything to be Mexican? VI The Perils of Modernity
Introduction
II Ancient Civilizations They Gave Us the Land
Introduction Mexico’s Crisis
The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society The Two Faces of Acapulco during the
Omens Foretelling the Conquest Golden Age
The Sinking City
III Conquest and Colony
Introduction VII From the Ruins
The Spaniards’ Entry into Introduction
Tenochtitlán The Student Movement of 1968
Cortés and Montezuma El Santo’s Strange Career
The Spiritual Conquest Corazón del Rocanrol
The Colonial Latifundio EZLN Demands at eh Dialogue Table
The Long Journey from Despair to
IV Trials of the Young Republic Hope
Introduction A Tzotzil Chronicle
The Siege of Guanajuato Mexicans Would Not Be Bought,
Sentiments of the Nation Coerced
Plan of Iguala
Liberals and the Land VIII The Border and Beyond
The Triumph of the Republic Introduction
Porfirio Díaz Visits Yucatán The Mexican Connection
The Maquiladoras
V Revolution Pedro P., Coyote
Introduction The New World Border
Land and Liberty