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MEXICO AND MEXICAN-U.S. RELATIONS Tommie Sue Montgomery, ed., Mexico Today (Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982). $6.95, paper, 138 pgs. The "Mexico Today Symposium" was presented in...
...The papers delivered at that symposium have been collected here into one volume that opens with an appealing essay by Octavio Paz on the cultural clashes that have marked the history of relations, or rather lack of relations, between the two countries...
...Box 7891, Austin, TX 78712...
...A group of well-known Mexican academics elaborate on these initial themes in the remaining essays to present an interesting, balanced discussion, although the contemporary essays are now somewhat dated...
...Born in Argentina, Adolfo Gilly began his controversial political life as a student with the Argentine Socialist Party, but turned to the revolutionary Left in that country in the late 1940s...
...The "Mexico Today Symposium" was presented in six U.S...
...For the most part they despised the "Greasers," but according to de Le6n's excellent book, what did make this relationship unique was the particular violence and passion attached to their hatred...
...Adolfo Gilly, The Mexican Revolution (Verso Editions, 1983...
...Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier (State University of New York Press, 1983...
...Plun- der, lynchings and murder became commonplace, legitimized by the Texas Rangers in an era of vengeance that lasted into the twentieth century...
...State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246...
...For this first English-language edition of the work, Gilly has added some new material...
...University of Arizona Press, 1615 East Speed- way, Tucson, AZ 85719...
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...10.95, paper, 213 pgs...
...Foreign firms were promised duty-free importation privileges on machinery, equipment and raw materials, with the incentive of a large, non-union, cheap labor force, on the condition that everything produced be exported...
...Their stories are festive ones of an independent and tightly-knit community, although more recent memories of racial attacks, bankrupt- cies and evictions occasionally creep to the surface...
...Author Fernandez-Kelly worked in a maquiladora for two months as part of her impressively researched and well- written study detailing the frustrations and aspirations of the factory women...
...and Latin America has assimilated her Indian heritage while the United States has eradicated hers...
...There is little reason to assume that the scores of white settlers who flocked to Texas during the 1830s and 1840s regarded the Mexican inhabitants of the territory any differently than they regarded the Indians through whose lands they rampaged to get there...
...12.50, paper, 110 pgs...
...In the 1960s, Tucson's historic Mexican barrio was slated for demolition-despite protests from the community and the preservationists--as part of a major urban renovation plan, and the residents were forced out and scattered among that city's slums...
...The extremely low, valueadded tax rate made re-importation no problem for the producing firms...
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...They didn't...
...After his release, the state voided his conviction and absolved him of all charges...
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...Today in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, there are over 100 maquiladoras, or assembly plants, in operation-all either subsidiaries or subcontractors of multinational firms...
...After the U.S...
...The real lesson here, garnered from some very astute comments from the residents, is for the urban planners who erase the cultural identity of the ghettoes, leaving immigrant populations or- phaned from their pasts--in this case, old people who enjoy memories of a sense of community but are now afraid to walk the streets...
...In 1965, the Mexican government instituted its Border Industrialization Program (BPI) to encourage foreign investment in the region and stimulate employment...
...cities in the autumn of 1978 in an attempt to familiarize Americans with Mexican history and culture and with the problems confronting U.S.-Mexican relations...
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...Civil War, with abolition and the resurgence of the Indian wars, the Texan settlers felt more threatened, and attacks on the Mexicans became much uglier and more frequent...
...The puritan hysteria of the white settlers made them obsessed with the Mexicans, a people they viewed as the damnable offspring of Spanish popery and Indian paganism-a race imbued with a dark mysticism personified in the demonic habits of gambling, gaming, dancing, sexual promiscuity, nudity, sodomy and the old Aztec practices of sacrifice and cannibalism...
...campaigned for Salvador Allende in the 1964 elections and later that year, started liaison work with the Guatemalan guerrillas led by Yon Sosa...
...Patricia Preciado Martin and Louis Carlos Bernal, Images and Conversations (University of Arizona Press, 1983...
...worked as a foreign correspondent in Castro's Cuba...
...8.95, paper, 153 pgs...
...In subsequent years, he organized Bolivian miners, following the MNR revolution...
...In Images and Conversations, the oldest of those displaced residents recount life in the barrio during this century's early years...
...University of Texas Press, P.O...
...Arnoldo de Le6n, They Called Them Greasers: Anglo At- titudes Towards Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900 (University of Texas Press, 1983...
...Paz makes a parting blow at Mexican democracy citing the failed expectations of the revolution...
...Paz notes two fundamental differences: one nation is Catholic, the other Protestant...
...He was arrested in Mexico in 1965 while on a support mission for the Sosa faction and was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment...
...The majority of these women migrate to the border zone, work 48-hour weeks, are between 17 and 25 years of age, single, childless, without support from parent or spouse and usually give over half of their wages to their families...
...It was while serving this sentence that Gilly wrote his widely-read Marxist interpretation of the 1910 Mexican Revolution...
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...11.50, paper, 398 pgs...
...More than half of them manufacture Nov/Dec 1983 electronics, most of the rest, apparel-and most of them hire women exclusively...
...Gilly is now a professor of political science at the National University of Mexico...
Vol. 17 • November 1983 • No. 6
