Mexico's 20th-century national identity has been defined and bounded by the images, colors, heroes, narratives, institutions, and symbols of the so-called Mexican Revolution. The social construction around the Me...
The colours of the Mexican flag stand for independence, unity and religion. The legend describes, that the Aztec settled and built their capital city which they named Tenochtitlan, which is today Mexico City, on the place where they saw and eagle sitting on a cactus, eating a snake. More a...
Prior to the building of the International Avenue, which created a clear separation between Mexico and the USA, there had been some interesting consequences of having a bi-national city straddling the international border. For example, after Arizona introduced prohibition, outlawing the production and...
Cultural and National Identity The flag of Mexico is a reflection of the nation’s rich cultural heritage, history, and identity. Mexico’s unique blend of indigenous, colonial, and modern influences is represented in the colors and symbols of the flag, with each element contributing to the ove...
In particular, auto-photography “allows researchers to capture and articulate the ways identity guides human action and thought. It can generate more authentic data because it enables researchers to look at the participants’ world through the participants’ eyes. Auto-photography does this because pa...
Mestizaje,the mixing of Spanish and indigenous, is the origin story of modern Mexico. It factored prominently during the Mexican Revolution when political leaders were trying to establish a new identity for the re-imagined nation, one based on honoring indigenous roots. And, yet, La Malinche con...
The most prominent symbols that express and reinforce national culture belong to the domains of state, religion, and popular culture. As a product of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1917), the Mexican state has been an important point of convergence for national identity. Because it was a widely...
the Aztec sun stone (now a centrepiece of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City) and archaeological sites such as Teotihuacán became inextricably linked with the creation of a specifically Mexican national identity and served to ground the nation’s authority in tradition and antiquity....
Book Keywords:Mexico, national identity, commodities, U.S.–Mexico relations, culture, consumption, gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity. Publisher’s Description Italy has grappa, Russia has vodka, Jamaica has rum. Around the world, certain drinks—especially those of the intoxicating kind—are synonymou...
Mexico is a vibrant, proud, and storied country, and this museum serves to remind and educate its people of their identity and their intangible (and incomparable) heritage.The Architecture and What’s Inside the MuseumJaime Torres Bodet was vital in building this museum and made sure that he ...