Sonic strategies : performing Mexico's war on drugs, mourning, and feminicide / by Baker, Christina, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…Sonic Disidentifications and a Mexicanidad for the Twenty-First Century -- Listening to Mexico's War: Necroauralities in Three Movements -- Antigone's Requiem: Sounds against Death and Disappearance -- Soundtracks of an Afterlife: Radical Geographies of Hope and Survival.…”
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Deported to death : how drug violence is changing migration on the US-Mexico border / by Slack, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…: asylum and the limits of protection against persecution -- Conclusions : requiem for the removed…”
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Funerals, festivals, and cultural politics in Porfirian Mexico / by Esposito, Matthew D., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Chronology of national commemorations in Porfirian Mexico -- Introduction : memory, hegemony, and cultural politics in Porfirian Mexico -- Death and the maiden of progress -- The politics of death : state funerals as rites of reconciliation, 1876-89 -- Reviving the dead : holiday commemorations in Porfirian Mexico -- The only show in town : state funerals in the heyday of modernization, 1890-1911 -- The exalted trinity of our national religion : the memorialization of Juárez, Hidalgo, Díaz, and other Mexican heroes -- Heroes laid to rest, the past exhumed : pantheonizations of the independence heroes -- Conclusion : requiem of the regime : sobre las olas, the centenario of 1910, and the Mexican Revolution -- Appendix A: state funerals, 1878-1910 -- Appendix B: state reburials, 1881-1909 -- Appendix C: heroes buried in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres -- Appendix D: statues on the Paseo de la Reforma.…”

Celluloid nationalism and other melodramas : from post-revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamérica / by Dever, Susan, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…PART I Post-Revolutionary Mexico -- CHAPTER ONE 47 -- Re-Birth of a Nation: On Mexican Movies, Museums, and Maria Felix -- CHAPTER TWO 71 -- Las de abajo: Matilde Landeta's Mexican Revolution -- CHAPTER THREE 95 -- Pimps, Prostitutes, and Politicos: Matilde Landetas Trotacalles and the Regime of Miguel Aleman -- PART II Fin de Siglo Mexamerica -- CHAPTER FOUR 125 -- Neomelodrama as Participatory Ethnography: Allison Anders's Mi vida loca -- CHAPTER FIVE 167 -- The Last Judgment: Marcela Fernindez Violante's Requiem (for) Melodrama -- EPILOGUE 195 -- Deeds that Inspire Confidence.…”
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