TY - CHAP
T1 - Creating a Revolutionary Culture
T2 - Vasconcelos, Indians, Anthropologists, and Calendar Girls
AU - Beezley, William H.
PY - 2011/4/20
Y1 - 2011/4/20
KW - Anthropological view of preserving indigenous cultures - native language, national policy in 1943
KW - Creating a revolutionary culture - Vasconcelos, Indians, anthropologists and calendar girls
KW - Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, UNAM - Vasconcelos wanting pupils to learn the jarape tapatío, the national folk dance
KW - Need for educational program, standard national level of literacy - national identity, not originating with Vasconcelos
KW - Promotion of murals and art - as aesthetic of cultural revolution, ignoring architectural innovations
KW - Revolutionaries, and a new culture - more inclusive society at the beginning of the 1920s
KW - Vasconcelos's The Cosmic Race - his classic statement on the Mestizo, mestizaje for Mexico and Latin America
KW - Vasconcelos, controversial with his racist views - fascist politics, his misogynist social attitudes
KW - Vasconcelos, drawing on legacy of intellectuals - necessity of assimilating indigenous peoples
KW - Vasconcelos, envisioning a uniform mestizo population - opposing goal of preserving indigenous cultural diversity
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U2 - 10.1002/9781444340600.ch24
DO - 10.1002/9781444340600.ch24
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84882095050
SN - 9781405190572
SP - 420
EP - 438
BT - A Companion to Mexican History and Culture
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
ER -