...Gareth Williams Duke University Press 2007 Gareth Williams The Mexican Exception and the ​ ​“Other Campaign” There can be no critical consideration of diver- gence, difference, or dissidence without attend‑ ing...

...Rodolfo Acuña Texas Annexation and the Mexican War: A Political Study of the Old Northwest . By Tutorow Norman E. . Palo Alto : Chadwick House, Publishers, Ltd. , 1978 . Pp. xi , 320 . $12.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 375 promise calculated...

...Joseph Sidney Werlin Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 MEXICAN OPINION OF US JOSEPH SIDNEY WERLIN THE VOLCANO, Paricutin, has just been born in Mexico. It is a rare and majestic phenomenon; but, impressive as it is, it towers neither as high nor as importantly as a new peak...

...Theodore Ropp Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 The Story of the Mexican War . By Henry Robert Selph . Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company , 1950 . Pp. 424 . $4.50 . 142 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Story of the Mexican War. By Robert Selph Henry. India­...

...Alicia Schmidt Camacho Duke University Press 2006 Alicia Schmidt Camacho Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Discourses of Mexican Migrant Traffic in Transnational Space It is not, then, just a question of mapping social rela- tions...

... through the scholarly lens of white settler colonialism, why not Latin America? In this essay, I attempt to answer these questions through an analysis of the confrontation of racial ideologies that occurred between Mexicans and Anglos in the U.S. Southwest. Legally, Mexican Americans were considered part...

... correspondents compared the Moroccan Sahara to El Paso and New Mexican pueblos. Yet, comparisons are also the rubric of critical colonial studies that unmask forms of exceptionalism and colonial rule. The comparative maneuvers that constitute American Orientalism unwittingly invite comparisons of colonial power...

...Rebecca Scott Bray When her exhibition “Operativo” opened at New York's Y Gallery, in July 2008, Mexican artist Teresa Margolles said, “Everyone dies but not everyone is murdered. I want people to recognize that.” Ostensibly, with this call for recognition, Margolles simultaneously gestures toward...

...S. B. West This article imagines abolitionist politics in the Yucatán peninsula as one group, known as U jeets'el le ki'ki’ kuxtal, pushes against one portion of Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador's development plan known as the “Tren Maya.” I contend that U je'etsel's calls for autonomy...

... of racial identity from a public icon to a collective political body. Focusing on the public response to the controversial 1986 Detroit statue Monument to Joe Louis , sculpted by Mexican American artist Robert Graham, the essay suggests that public art created on behalf of cross-racial healing most...

... the presence of local Anglo ranchers, Native Americans, and neighboring Mexicans. Contemporary efforts of removal and erasure of undocumented border crossers, therefore, are part of a long lineage of defining who belongs and who does not belong on these public lands. In this article, I argue that the work...

...Ramón A. Gutiérrez Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Ramon A. Gutierrez Hispanic Diaspora and Chicano Identity in the United States ^)n the first day of April 1996, the world watched in terror as images beamed to millions of television screens showed an undocumented Mexican...

... pending. There was the question of whether foreign-owned property would be expropriated under the Constitution of 1917; the United States withheld recognition of the Obregon re­ gime until 1923; and the threat of U.S. intervention hung in the air until 1927.1 But in spite of the growth of a Mexican...

..., it stood in for, albeit sometimes inadvertently, the belief that the Mexican immigrant was the real source of pollution. The environment at the center of projections of NAFTA’s future was the far-distant environment of the U.S.-Mexico border region. Yet media coverage succeeded in making this threat...

... (NAFTA) have accelerated the industrial- ization of Mexican border towns with largely U.S.-owned maquiladora factories, which have created conditions for heightened environmen- tal pollution and increased...

... Porto Rico and the Philippines while fighting in the glorious cause of human liberty, has been taught to look upon the Mexican War as unworthy of the American people, an undignified squabble for land. This sentiment, though based on error, is natural to a proud and high-minded people. It has been...

..., they certainly are not what we had been led to expect. Whether American newspapers ever understood Mexico may, therefore, be open to question, since they usually judge Mexican facts in the light of American psychology. They have been told that, from the end of the Diaz re­ gime down to the present day, most...

... become characteristic of this moment, their lives can no longer be contained within 3 national boundaries. San Nicoladenses living in the United States are intensely tied to the Mexican community, making the village space a promi...

.... The strait and Atlantic journeys have become two versions of Spain’s Río Grande, the last and most dangerous obstacle between the third and first 5 worlds. There are more parallels as well: The crossing of the U.S.-Mexican border finds a direct counterpart in the night assaults on the recently re...

...Walter M. Brasch The Hanigan Case: Hung Up on Racism? Walter M. Brasch How do you convince three Mexicans who were robbed and tortured in the United States that justice was served after one of the American whites accused of the crimes was acquitted by an all-white jury, and the other one...