Jonathan Fox
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199208852
- eISBN:
- 9780191709005
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208852.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
This chapter explores the relationship between democratization and decentralization. In Mexico, the government promoted deliberative citizen participation nation-wide in rural municipalities, well ...
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This chapter explores the relationship between democratization and decentralization. In Mexico, the government promoted deliberative citizen participation nation-wide in rural municipalities, well before national electoral democratization. Mexican decentralization empowered municipalities, but it turns out that municipal governance systematically excludes millions of rural people who live outside of the town centers that usually control municipal affairs. Those villages are most directly governed by sub-municipal authorities. In some states and regions these truly local authorities are chosen democratically, representing villagers to the municipality, in others they are designated from above, representing the mayor to the villagers. This chapter explores rural citizens' efforts to hold local governments accountable through three different comparative research strategies: analysis of resource allocation decision-making processes in a representative sample of local rural governments in the state of Oaxaca; comparison of changing municipal-sub-municipal power relations in four rural states (Oaxaca, Guerrero, Hidalgo, and Chiapas); and a nation-wide comparison of the state level laws that govern this invisible ‘sub-municipal regime’.Less
This chapter explores the relationship between democratization and decentralization. In Mexico, the government promoted deliberative citizen participation nation-wide in rural municipalities, well before national electoral democratization. Mexican decentralization empowered municipalities, but it turns out that municipal governance systematically excludes millions of rural people who live outside of the town centers that usually control municipal affairs. Those villages are most directly governed by sub-municipal authorities. In some states and regions these truly local authorities are chosen democratically, representing villagers to the municipality, in others they are designated from above, representing the mayor to the villagers. This chapter explores rural citizens' efforts to hold local governments accountable through three different comparative research strategies: analysis of resource allocation decision-making processes in a representative sample of local rural governments in the state of Oaxaca; comparison of changing municipal-sub-municipal power relations in four rural states (Oaxaca, Guerrero, Hidalgo, and Chiapas); and a nation-wide comparison of the state level laws that govern this invisible ‘sub-municipal regime’.
Robert Lawrence Gunn
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479842582
- eISBN:
- 9781479812516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479842582.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Chapter 5 historicizes Bartlett’s controversial tenure as Boundary Commissioner in terms of previous acts of scientific collaboration between the American Ethnological Society and the War Department ...
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Chapter 5 historicizes Bartlett’s controversial tenure as Boundary Commissioner in terms of previous acts of scientific collaboration between the American Ethnological Society and the War Department (focusing on Gallatin, Emory, and Schoolcraft), and exposes the degree to which the ethnological project participated in the larger national and imperial enterprises of the U.S.-Mexico War and international boundary creation. This chapter also shows how ethnological prerogatives, as well as persistent territorial disputes, shape Bartlett’s literary representation, particularly concerning the Apache leader Mangas Coloradas. Focusing on two dramatic episodes in which Bartlett acts on the authority of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo to liberate Indian captives, examples this chapter illustrates the jurisdictional issues of intercultural negotiation on a shifting transnational borderlands, and illuminates Bartlett’s reliance on the mid-century romantic conventions of literary sentiment to represent the plight of his liberated Mexican captives.Less
Chapter 5 historicizes Bartlett’s controversial tenure as Boundary Commissioner in terms of previous acts of scientific collaboration between the American Ethnological Society and the War Department (focusing on Gallatin, Emory, and Schoolcraft), and exposes the degree to which the ethnological project participated in the larger national and imperial enterprises of the U.S.-Mexico War and international boundary creation. This chapter also shows how ethnological prerogatives, as well as persistent territorial disputes, shape Bartlett’s literary representation, particularly concerning the Apache leader Mangas Coloradas. Focusing on two dramatic episodes in which Bartlett acts on the authority of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo to liberate Indian captives, examples this chapter illustrates the jurisdictional issues of intercultural negotiation on a shifting transnational borderlands, and illuminates Bartlett’s reliance on the mid-century romantic conventions of literary sentiment to represent the plight of his liberated Mexican captives.
Timothy Matovina
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195162271
- eISBN:
- 9780199850365
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195162271.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter explores the various ways Latinos drew on their Catholic faith and popular traditions to resist the discriminatory treatment they faced after the US–Mexico War and the Treaty of ...
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This chapter explores the various ways Latinos drew on their Catholic faith and popular traditions to resist the discriminatory treatment they faced after the US–Mexico War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ceded the Southwest to the United States. Although in theory the treaty promised Latinos the same rights and privileges as all other citizens, in practice Latinos were forced to live in segregated communities, had to attend segregated schools, and were discriminated against. This kind of shoddy treatment took place outside and inside of the Catholic Church. The chapter further explores the various struggles of indigenous (born and raised in the area) native-born priests like Antonio José Martínez, who resisted discrimination by Anglo-American public and church officials. It demonstrates the vital role that Latino clergy and popular Catholic traditions had in political, civic, and social action in the Southwest. It also shows the various ways Latinos used popular religious traditions as a resource to engage in civic and social action. This offers a valuable corrective to studies that ignore the impact of religion and popular religiosity or confine it to the “domestic sphere”.Less
This chapter explores the various ways Latinos drew on their Catholic faith and popular traditions to resist the discriminatory treatment they faced after the US–Mexico War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ceded the Southwest to the United States. Although in theory the treaty promised Latinos the same rights and privileges as all other citizens, in practice Latinos were forced to live in segregated communities, had to attend segregated schools, and were discriminated against. This kind of shoddy treatment took place outside and inside of the Catholic Church. The chapter further explores the various struggles of indigenous (born and raised in the area) native-born priests like Antonio José Martínez, who resisted discrimination by Anglo-American public and church officials. It demonstrates the vital role that Latino clergy and popular Catholic traditions had in political, civic, and social action in the Southwest. It also shows the various ways Latinos used popular religious traditions as a resource to engage in civic and social action. This offers a valuable corrective to studies that ignore the impact of religion and popular religiosity or confine it to the “domestic sphere”.
Anthony Close
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159988
- eISBN:
- 9780191673733
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159988.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter examines the implications of the socio-genetic and ideological factors that brought about the evolution of Spanish attitudes towards comic fiction for three Spanish writings published ...
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This chapter examines the implications of the socio-genetic and ideological factors that brought about the evolution of Spanish attitudes towards comic fiction for three Spanish writings published between 1596 and 1624. These writings include Alonso Lopez Pinciano's Philosophia antigua poetica, Gaspar Lucas Hidalgo's Dialogos and Tirso de Molina's Cigarrales de Toledo. This chapter suggests that these works were significantly influenced by the new comic ethos in terms of style and content.Less
This chapter examines the implications of the socio-genetic and ideological factors that brought about the evolution of Spanish attitudes towards comic fiction for three Spanish writings published between 1596 and 1624. These writings include Alonso Lopez Pinciano's Philosophia antigua poetica, Gaspar Lucas Hidalgo's Dialogos and Tirso de Molina's Cigarrales de Toledo. This chapter suggests that these works were significantly influenced by the new comic ethos in terms of style and content.
Christina H. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781784991203
- eISBN:
- 9781526104021
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784991203.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
The literary texts Lee examines in “Chapter Two” involve scenarios in which hidalgos are threatened by lowborn passers determined to do them harm, and ultimately arrive to the felicitous conclusion ...
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The literary texts Lee examines in “Chapter Two” involve scenarios in which hidalgos are threatened by lowborn passers determined to do them harm, and ultimately arrive to the felicitous conclusion that the established nobility prevails. These fictional narratives and dramas of lowborn passers allow the target reader or audience member to peek into the otherwise mysterious lives of these imagined impostors and proffer the false sense that s/he has an insight on the well-shielded secrets of their deceptive performances. Lee focuses on authors Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo’s El caballero puntual, Diego de Hermosilla’s Diálogo de la vida de los pajes de palacio, Lope de Vega’s El caballero de milagro, Quevedo’s Historia de la vida del buscón llamado don Pablos, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano’s Teresa de Manzanares, and Vicente Espinel’s Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón. She ends her discussion of social anxiety with an interpretation of the hidalgo hero in Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote as a figure who initially incarnates the anxiety of sameness and eventually conquers it.Less
The literary texts Lee examines in “Chapter Two” involve scenarios in which hidalgos are threatened by lowborn passers determined to do them harm, and ultimately arrive to the felicitous conclusion that the established nobility prevails. These fictional narratives and dramas of lowborn passers allow the target reader or audience member to peek into the otherwise mysterious lives of these imagined impostors and proffer the false sense that s/he has an insight on the well-shielded secrets of their deceptive performances. Lee focuses on authors Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo’s El caballero puntual, Diego de Hermosilla’s Diálogo de la vida de los pajes de palacio, Lope de Vega’s El caballero de milagro, Quevedo’s Historia de la vida del buscón llamado don Pablos, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano’s Teresa de Manzanares, and Vicente Espinel’s Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón. She ends her discussion of social anxiety with an interpretation of the hidalgo hero in Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote as a figure who initially incarnates the anxiety of sameness and eventually conquers it.
Sharada Balachandran Orihuela
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469640921
- eISBN:
- 9781469640945
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640921.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Though the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) ostensibly extended American citizenship to the Mexican landed class at the conclusion of the Mexican American War and ensured their property rights ...
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Though the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) ostensibly extended American citizenship to the Mexican landed class at the conclusion of the Mexican American War and ensured their property rights despite the transfer of land to the U.S., they were nonetheless stripped of formal claims to their property and forced to enter into lengthy and costly legal battles to regain possession of these ranches. Hidalgos had to compete with Anglo agricultural settlers (or squatters), as well as with the railroad barons looking to expand railways in the newly annexed territories. Women are able to best navigate the unstable political economy of the borderlands through the act of squatting, understood broadly to mean the settlement of “unoccupied” land. Read alongside the significant historical events including various land laws and pre-emption acts of the mid-nineteenth century, hidalgo women perform forms of ownership that upend the racialized and gendered logics of citizenship, and the intimate ties between property and rights. The Squatter and the Don recasts the “problem” of Mexican land occupation as U.S. anxiety over territorial expansion and colonization made more complex by the presence of differently racialized populations along the borderlands.Less
Though the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) ostensibly extended American citizenship to the Mexican landed class at the conclusion of the Mexican American War and ensured their property rights despite the transfer of land to the U.S., they were nonetheless stripped of formal claims to their property and forced to enter into lengthy and costly legal battles to regain possession of these ranches. Hidalgos had to compete with Anglo agricultural settlers (or squatters), as well as with the railroad barons looking to expand railways in the newly annexed territories. Women are able to best navigate the unstable political economy of the borderlands through the act of squatting, understood broadly to mean the settlement of “unoccupied” land. Read alongside the significant historical events including various land laws and pre-emption acts of the mid-nineteenth century, hidalgo women perform forms of ownership that upend the racialized and gendered logics of citizenship, and the intimate ties between property and rights. The Squatter and the Don recasts the “problem” of Mexican land occupation as U.S. anxiety over territorial expansion and colonization made more complex by the presence of differently racialized populations along the borderlands.
Jaime Rodriguez O.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804778305
- eISBN:
- 9780804784634
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804778305.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821—one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under ...
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This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821—one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest, and most developed part of the worldwide Spanish Monarchy, and most novohispanos (people of New Spain) believed that their religious, social, economic, and political ties to the Monarchy made union preferable to separation. Neither the American nor the French Revolution convinced the novohispanos to sever ties with the Spanish Monarchy; nor did the Hidalgo Revolt of September 1810 and subsequent insurgencies cause Mexican independence. It was Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808 that led to the Hispanic Constitution of 1812. When the government in Spain rejected those new constituted arrangements, Mexico declared independence. The Mexican Constitution of 1824 affirms both the new state's independence and its continuance of Spanish political culture.Less
This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821—one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest, and most developed part of the worldwide Spanish Monarchy, and most novohispanos (people of New Spain) believed that their religious, social, economic, and political ties to the Monarchy made union preferable to separation. Neither the American nor the French Revolution convinced the novohispanos to sever ties with the Spanish Monarchy; nor did the Hidalgo Revolt of September 1810 and subsequent insurgencies cause Mexican independence. It was Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808 that led to the Hispanic Constitution of 1812. When the government in Spain rejected those new constituted arrangements, Mexico declared independence. The Mexican Constitution of 1824 affirms both the new state's independence and its continuance of Spanish political culture.
Randy J. Ontiveros
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814738849
- eISBN:
- 9780814738887
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814738849.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter discusses the celebrated theater collective El Teatro Campesino and its staging of a “performative citizenship” that challenged the regime of immigration restriction of U.S. immigration ...
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This chapter discusses the celebrated theater collective El Teatro Campesino and its staging of a “performative citizenship” that challenged the regime of immigration restriction of U.S. immigration law. After the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, racial fears led to the establishment of the Border Patrol in 1924 and to the passage that same year of the Johnson-Reed Act, which created an unprecedented system of preferences that “drew a new ethnic and racial map based on new categories and hierarchies of difference.” In response, El Teatro Campesino improvised skit that enacted an alternative form of belonging based not on papers but on the power of creative labor.Less
This chapter discusses the celebrated theater collective El Teatro Campesino and its staging of a “performative citizenship” that challenged the regime of immigration restriction of U.S. immigration law. After the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, racial fears led to the establishment of the Border Patrol in 1924 and to the passage that same year of the Johnson-Reed Act, which created an unprecedented system of preferences that “drew a new ethnic and racial map based on new categories and hierarchies of difference.” In response, El Teatro Campesino improvised skit that enacted an alternative form of belonging based not on papers but on the power of creative labor.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804778305
- eISBN:
- 9780804784634
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804778305.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose—to examine the complex process that led to Mexican independence and the formation of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United States of Mexico). It ...
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose—to examine the complex process that led to Mexican independence and the formation of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United States of Mexico). It challenges the view that the Hidalgo Revolt, which erupted in 1810, and the subsequent insurgencies was the revolution that achieved independence in 1821. It demonstrates that the political transformation within the composite Spanish Monarchy—which accelerated after the French invasion of Spain in 1808 and culminated in the Hispanic Constitution of 1812 enacted by the Cortes of Cádiz and the institutions of self-government it established—was the fundamental revolution. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose—to examine the complex process that led to Mexican independence and the formation of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United States of Mexico). It challenges the view that the Hidalgo Revolt, which erupted in 1810, and the subsequent insurgencies was the revolution that achieved independence in 1821. It demonstrates that the political transformation within the composite Spanish Monarchy—which accelerated after the French invasion of Spain in 1808 and culminated in the Hispanic Constitution of 1812 enacted by the Cortes of Cádiz and the institutions of self-government it established—was the fundamental revolution. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Russell Cheng
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198505044
- eISBN:
- 9780191746390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198505044.003.0018
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Probability / Statistics
Two detailed numerical examples are given in this chapter illustrating and comparing mainly the reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) and the maximum a posteriori/importance sampling ...
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Two detailed numerical examples are given in this chapter illustrating and comparing mainly the reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) and the maximum a posteriori/importance sampling (MAPIS) methods. The numerical examples are the well-known galaxy data set with sample size 82, and the Hidalgo stamp issues thickness data with sample size 485. A comparison is made of the estimates obtained by the RJMCMC and MAPIS methods for (i) the posterior k-distribution of the number of components, k, (ii) the predictive finite mixture distribution itself, and (iii) the posterior distributions of the component parameters and weights. The estimates obtained by MAPIS are shown to be more satisfactory and meaningful. Details are given of the practical implementation of MAPIS for five non-normal mixture models, namely: the extreme value, gamma, inverse Gaussian, lognormal, and Weibull. Mathematical details are also given of the acceptance-rejection importance sampling used in MAPIS.Less
Two detailed numerical examples are given in this chapter illustrating and comparing mainly the reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) and the maximum a posteriori/importance sampling (MAPIS) methods. The numerical examples are the well-known galaxy data set with sample size 82, and the Hidalgo stamp issues thickness data with sample size 485. A comparison is made of the estimates obtained by the RJMCMC and MAPIS methods for (i) the posterior k-distribution of the number of components, k, (ii) the predictive finite mixture distribution itself, and (iii) the posterior distributions of the component parameters and weights. The estimates obtained by MAPIS are shown to be more satisfactory and meaningful. Details are given of the practical implementation of MAPIS for five non-normal mixture models, namely: the extreme value, gamma, inverse Gaussian, lognormal, and Weibull. Mathematical details are also given of the acceptance-rejection importance sampling used in MAPIS.
Georgina Kleege
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- November 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190604356
- eISBN:
- 9780190604394
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190604356.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, Criticism/Theory
The chapter analyzes the use of Braille and other tactile features in public spaces, such as elevators, and in such sites as the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC, and in the work of ...
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The chapter analyzes the use of Braille and other tactile features in public spaces, such as elevators, and in such sites as the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC, and in the work of such artists as Ann Hamilton and Robert Graham. The chapter also does some close readings of tactile books that are intended to explain visual art to blind children and adults. The over-determined analogy that links the eyes of the sighted to the hands of the blind makes Braille in these sites more of a signifier of blindness than a true access tool. The chapter also includes some works by blind artists that seem to comment on how Braille is typically understood.Less
The chapter analyzes the use of Braille and other tactile features in public spaces, such as elevators, and in such sites as the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC, and in the work of such artists as Ann Hamilton and Robert Graham. The chapter also does some close readings of tactile books that are intended to explain visual art to blind children and adults. The over-determined analogy that links the eyes of the sighted to the hands of the blind makes Braille in these sites more of a signifier of blindness than a true access tool. The chapter also includes some works by blind artists that seem to comment on how Braille is typically understood.
Lee Bebout
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816670864
- eISBN:
- 9781452946917
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816670864.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines the internal diversity and the desire for unity within the Chicano movement. More specifically, it analyzes the sites of tension and influence between two competing strands of ...
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This chapter examines the internal diversity and the desire for unity within the Chicano movement. More specifically, it analyzes the sites of tension and influence between two competing strands of the movement from a mythohistorical perspective: the New Mexico land grant struggle led by Reies López Tijerina and the more broadly defined Chicano nationalism. It considers how Tijerina and his Alianza Federal de Mercedes sought reclamation of communal land rights guaranteed under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and how Chicano nationalism drew upon a wide array of cultural materials to foster community uplift. A cornerstone of Chicano nationalism was the conceptualization of Aztlán as a Chicano homeland in the U.S. Southwest. The chapter also revisits the June 5, 1967, raid that propelled Tijerina and the Aliancistas to national attention at a moment when Chicano nationalism was just emerging but had not solidified the political, spiritual, or philosophical grounds for unification. It argues that the raid transformed Tijerina into a living embodiment of the revolutionary/bandido trope and that the image of Tijerina conflicted with the reformist strategies of Tijerina, the man.Less
This chapter examines the internal diversity and the desire for unity within the Chicano movement. More specifically, it analyzes the sites of tension and influence between two competing strands of the movement from a mythohistorical perspective: the New Mexico land grant struggle led by Reies López Tijerina and the more broadly defined Chicano nationalism. It considers how Tijerina and his Alianza Federal de Mercedes sought reclamation of communal land rights guaranteed under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and how Chicano nationalism drew upon a wide array of cultural materials to foster community uplift. A cornerstone of Chicano nationalism was the conceptualization of Aztlán as a Chicano homeland in the U.S. Southwest. The chapter also revisits the June 5, 1967, raid that propelled Tijerina and the Aliancistas to national attention at a moment when Chicano nationalism was just emerging but had not solidified the political, spiritual, or philosophical grounds for unification. It argues that the raid transformed Tijerina into a living embodiment of the revolutionary/bandido trope and that the image of Tijerina conflicted with the reformist strategies of Tijerina, the man.
Timothy Matovina
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190902759
- eISBN:
- 9780190902780
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190902759.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Father Miguel Hidalgo famously adopted the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe as the banner for the insurrectionary movement that led to Mexican independence. Following independence, Guadalupe’s strong ...
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Father Miguel Hidalgo famously adopted the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe as the banner for the insurrectionary movement that led to Mexican independence. Following independence, Guadalupe’s strong association with national identity led interpreters to emphasize that her appearance established a singular election of Mexico as her chosen nation. Guadalupan preachers addressed a variety of national concerns through allusions to biblical notions of covenant, avowing that Guadalupe had established a pact with the Mexican people in similar fashion to God’s covenants with Noah, David, and especially Moses and the people of Israel. Nineteenth-century Guadalupan preachers addressed the theme of covenant as Mexicans won their independence, struggled to establish a new nation, and mounted a successful campaign for papal authorization of an 1895 Guadalupe coronation. This chapter examines their theological claims, the growing devotion to Guadalupe as Mexico’s national symbol, and the unprecedented increase in devotion to Guadalupe among native peoples.Less
Father Miguel Hidalgo famously adopted the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe as the banner for the insurrectionary movement that led to Mexican independence. Following independence, Guadalupe’s strong association with national identity led interpreters to emphasize that her appearance established a singular election of Mexico as her chosen nation. Guadalupan preachers addressed a variety of national concerns through allusions to biblical notions of covenant, avowing that Guadalupe had established a pact with the Mexican people in similar fashion to God’s covenants with Noah, David, and especially Moses and the people of Israel. Nineteenth-century Guadalupan preachers addressed the theme of covenant as Mexicans won their independence, struggled to establish a new nation, and mounted a successful campaign for papal authorization of an 1895 Guadalupe coronation. This chapter examines their theological claims, the growing devotion to Guadalupe as Mexico’s national symbol, and the unprecedented increase in devotion to Guadalupe among native peoples.
John C. Pinheiro
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199948673
- eISBN:
- 9780199380794
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199948673.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter shows how the end of the war tested the American commitment to the Beecherite synthesis. During the first half of 1848 congressmen turned with renewed vigor to the malleable rhetoric of ...
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This chapter shows how the end of the war tested the American commitment to the Beecherite synthesis. During the first half of 1848 congressmen turned with renewed vigor to the malleable rhetoric of anti-Catholicism to debate how much Mexican territory should be annexed and whether the treaty signed at Guadalupe should be ratified. Historians, poets, playwrights, and novelists joined the fray, all finding in the war a new reservoir of creative material. Between 1848 and the early 1850s, they popularized a view of Mexico and the war that embodied the racial and civil-religious sentiment that had characterized American opinion throughout the war. Meanwhile, evangelicals continued to refocus their missionary efforts as they sought to take advantage of the American victory. The All Mexico movement is also explored. Remarkably, the war with Mexico led avowed nativists to eschew rational political choices in favor of anti-Catholicism. By doing so, they proved that their movement was strongly grounded in a religious ideology that was far more than just an advantageous political tool. Last, this chapter examines the meaning Americans found in their victory, in light of their civil religion and the liberal revolutions in Europe in 1848.Less
This chapter shows how the end of the war tested the American commitment to the Beecherite synthesis. During the first half of 1848 congressmen turned with renewed vigor to the malleable rhetoric of anti-Catholicism to debate how much Mexican territory should be annexed and whether the treaty signed at Guadalupe should be ratified. Historians, poets, playwrights, and novelists joined the fray, all finding in the war a new reservoir of creative material. Between 1848 and the early 1850s, they popularized a view of Mexico and the war that embodied the racial and civil-religious sentiment that had characterized American opinion throughout the war. Meanwhile, evangelicals continued to refocus their missionary efforts as they sought to take advantage of the American victory. The All Mexico movement is also explored. Remarkably, the war with Mexico led avowed nativists to eschew rational political choices in favor of anti-Catholicism. By doing so, they proved that their movement was strongly grounded in a religious ideology that was far more than just an advantageous political tool. Last, this chapter examines the meaning Americans found in their victory, in light of their civil religion and the liberal revolutions in Europe in 1848.
