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“[Seen and Heard in Mexico] skillfully weaves together a variety of complex and significant threads while keeping at its center the important topic of the construction of childhood as a central component of postrevolutionary citizenship and nationalism.”—John Lear, professor of history at the University of Puget Sound and author of Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City



Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Seen and Heard in Revolutionary Mexico

1. Constructing Citizens: Adult-Produced Science, Space, Symbolism, and Rhetoric for the Revolutionary Child

2. Pulgarcito and Popocatépetl: Children’s Art Curriculum and the Creation of a National Aesthetic

3. A Community of Invisible Little Friends: Technology and Power in Children’s Radio Programs

4. Comino vence al Diablo and Other Terrifying Episodes: Teatro Guiñol’s Itinerant Puppet Theater

5. Hacer Patria through Peer Education: Literacy, Alcohol, and the Proletarian Child

6. Hermanitos de la Raza: Civic Organizations and International Diplomacy

Conclusion: Exceptional and Everyday Citizens

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/2015
      ISBN13: 9780803265349, 978-0803265349
      ISBN10: 0803265344
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      Age groups: children

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      “[Seen and Heard in Mexico] skillfully weaves together a variety of complex and significant threads while keeping at its center the important topic of the construction of childhood as a central component of postrevolutionary citizenship and nationalism.”—John Lear, professor of history at the University of Puget Sound and author of Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City



      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: Seen and Heard in Revolutionary Mexico

      1. Constructing Citizens: Adult-Produced Science, Space, Symbolism, and Rhetoric for the Revolutionary Child

      2. Pulgarcito and Popocatépetl: Children’s Art Curriculum and the Creation of a National Aesthetic

      3. A Community of Invisible Little Friends: Technology and Power in Children’s Radio Programs

      4. Comino vence al Diablo and Other Terrifying Episodes: Teatro Guiñol’s Itinerant Puppet Theater

      5. Hacer Patria through Peer Education: Literacy, Alcohol, and the Proletarian Child

      6. Hermanitos de la Raza: Civic Organizations and International Diplomacy

      Conclusion: Exceptional and Everyday Citizens

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index

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