Chapter 11
Video Resources
- This section of the PBS documentary The Storm that Swept Mexico addresses the revolution from the Constitution of 1917 to the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVWcgOcvgV0 (60:00-01:43:54)
- This video shows the Diego Rivera murals in the National Palace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-qMTx3RPyE (02:06)
- This video discusses the life and work in Mexico in the 1920s of the Italian photographer and activist Tina Modotti: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/interactive_features/30# (02:25)
- This archival footage shows Plutarco Elías Calles (accompanied by outgoing president Alvaro Obregón) officially assume the presidency in 1924: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obWOnDnneds (00:30)
- In this video, a veteran of the Cristero Rebellion discusses his experiences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FGQsKW7uQY (05:07)
- This newsreel shows the massive public support of the expropriation of petroleum carried out by Lázaro Cárdenas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d-ImDnQ4pA (0:49)
Links
- This website contains discussion and images related to the Constitution of 1917: http://iscmexicanrevolution.weebly.com/constitution-of-1917.html
- This website contains an interview about Tijuana during the age of Prohibition with historian Paul Vanderwood: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/jul/20/tijuana-was-once-satans-playground/
- This website discusses experiments in birth control in socialist Yucatán during the 1920s: https://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/birth-control-in-1920s-mexico/
- This website contains an excerpt of José Vasconcelos’s most famous essay “The Cosmic Race” (on how racial mixing in Mexico created a unique and superior culture): http://www.epcc.edu/faculty/rferrell/Documents/The_Cosmic_Race.pdf
- This website presents an overview of the life and works of the great muralists: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/art-between-wars/latin-american-modernism1/a/mexican-muralism-los-tres-grandes-david-alfaro-siqueiros-diego-rivera-and-jos-clemente-orozco
- This interactive website from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art illustrates art and artists after the revolution: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/interactive_features/73#
- This website is dedicated to the life and work of Diego Rivera: http://www.diegorivera.com/
- This website contains photographs regarding the Cristero Rebellion and links to related sites: http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cristero.htm
- This website contains a corrido dedicated to José de León Toral, who assassinated Alvaro Obregón: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/jaime/cwp5/Public/fusilamientodeltoralpt1y2.html
- This website contains Standard Oil’s response to the expropriation of the petroleum industry carried out by President Lázaro Cárdenas: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5169/