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From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico. [PDF]
Sociol Health Illn, 2023 Abstract Eugenic ideas in Mexico were popularised after the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) as a way of ‘modernising’ and ‘civilising’ the nation. As a result, eugenic ideas were able to linger and be maintained through different departments, institutions, and individuals from all disciplines. After eugenics was considered a pseudoscience, its practices
Sanchez-Rivera R.
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Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1135-1152, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the conflict over the legalisation of women's boxing in Mexico City in the 1990s. In 1995, Laura Serrano's Women's International Boxing Federation world boxing title put pressure on the legal system that had banned women from professional boxing in the Mexican capital since 1946.
Marjolein Van Bavel
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Dystopian Eugenics and Mestizo Futurisms in Eduardo Urzaiz's Eugenia
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 6-20, January 2023., 2023 Set in 2218, the novel Eugenia envisions a contradictory utopian and dystopian future premised upon eugenical engineering. Here, I analyse Urzaiz's vision of the beginnings of eugenics in Mexico. Ultimately, I argue that Villautopia is presented as ever‐vigilant and always responding to threats of degeneracy and social disorder, which accurately the ...
R. Sanchez‐Rivera
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‘Our Culture's Not for Sale!’: Music and the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca in Mexico
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 416-431, July 2021., 2021 The Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO), a social movement that emerged in June 2006, was a response to severe government repression of a teachers' strike in Oaxaca, Mexico. This article focuses on the movement participants' involvement with music, and the innovative ways in which songs associated with APPO were shared and circulated ...
Hazel Marsh
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Fotógrafas mexicanas: imágenes de disidencia y empoderamiento
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte, 2017 Se estudia la fotografía mexicana moderna (1920-1990) a través de la visión de cuatro fotógrafas, Tina Modotti, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Mariana Yampolsky y Graciela Iturbide en relación a su posicionamiento en lo relativo a la mexicanidad: un discurso ...
Lucas Esteban Lorduy Osés
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María Izquierdo: arte puro y mexicanidad
Co-herencia, 2018 Este ensayo provee una visión general de la obra de la pintora mexicana María Izquierdo (1902-1955) y ubica sus imágenes e ideas dentro de los debates sobre el rol del arte en la sociedad mexicana entre 1930 y 1950. En la primera década de su carrera ella estaba tangencialmente afiliada al grupo vanguardista literario conocido como los Contemporáneos ...
Nancy Deffebach, Rosamaría Graziani
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Las ruinas arqueológicas de México
Ciencias Sociales y Religión, 2021 Este artículo da cuenta de los orígenes de las actuales prácticas rituales masivas y espirituales que tienen lugar en dos de los principales sitios arqueológicos de México, Teotihuacán y Chichen-Itzá, elegidos como casos de estudio que muestran pautas ...
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Literatura Mexicana, 2010 Alfonso Reyes is one of the principal proponents of the idea (almost a campaign) to make one Juan Ruiz de Alarcón into not just being a Mexican, but the very prototype of Mexicanicity.
Alberto Paredes
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De revoluciones y cambios culturales. Yucatán 1915-1929
Liminar: Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos, 2012 El origen del artículo es una reflexión que busca responder a la interrogante de hasta qué punto las ideas de la Revolución mexicana se reflejaron en la cultura regional de Yucatán en la etapa en que se construía una “mexicanidad” distinta para el México
Victoria Novelo Oppenheim
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Terrains/Théories, 2022 Miguel is a former agricultural worker from Oaxaca who, once settled in the region of Cancun, has been employed in a tourist park as a « Mayan warrior ».
Mélissa Elbez
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