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Video Resources

  1. This section of the PBS documentary The Storm that Swept Mexico addresses the aftermath of revolution from 1940 to 1970: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVWcgOcvgV0 (01:43:54-01:57:13)
  2. This 1933 movie El Compadre Mendoza suggests that the compromises and opportunism had led to a sense of disappointment with the Revolution. Note the humorous fragment (4:30 to 5:20) in which the hacienda butler changes portraits to fit the visitors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMF90Rr-M8o (1:21:30)
  3. This fragment of the 1954 movie Escuela de Vagabundos features a serenade by Pedro Infante, the “cowboy singer” of the Mexico’s “golden age” of film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-lANuwEbc (3:31)
  4. This video presents an introduction to the Mexican workers who came to the United States as part of the Bracero program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UqmPYQ_Vb0 (23:17)
  5. This video features archive film footage of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBu8o6AlQlA (2:50)

Links

  1. This website makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program: http://braceroarchive.org/
  2. This website contains posters advertising the controversial 1950 film Los Olvidados by Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel. The movie’s portrayal of urban poverty, youth violence, and broken families offered a direct criticism of the “Mexican Miracle”: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042804/mediaindex?ref_=ttmd_md_sm
  3. This website details the history of XEW, Mexico’s largest radio station: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Station-Albums/XEW_Master_Page.htm
  4. This website contains multimedia links related to the history of the “green revolution” in Mexico: http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe50s/crops_14.html
  5. This website discusses the life and work of the actor Dolores del Río: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003123/
  6. This website discusses the life and work of the painter Frida Kahlo: http://www.fridakahlo.com/
  7. This Nobel Prize website discusses the life and work of writer Octavio Paz: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1990/paz-facts.html
  8. This website discusses the life and work of painter José Luis Cuevas: http://rogallery.com/cuevas_jose_luis/cuevas-biography.htm
  9. This website contains dispatches from the U.S. ambassador to Mexico between 1958 and 1960: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v05/ch13
  10. National Security Archive website discusses the Tlatelolco massacre in the light of CIA documents: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB10/intro.htm

Primary Documents from the Text

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