In the years following the Mexican Revolution, visual images of la chica moderna, the modern woman, au courant in appearance and attitude, popped up in mass med

A look at how the modern woman was envisioned in postrevolutionary Mexican popular culture and how she figured in contestations over Mexican national identity.

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during th

An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records.

During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social act