Journal of Popular Culture articles from September 2001

Journal of Popular Culture archives from September 2001

The legacy of African slavery in Colonial Mexico, 1519-1810 (1).
September 22, 2001... African-Mexicans have endured general neglect-once as slaves and again as historical subjects. Few scholars have examined the African-Hispanic experience thoroughly. Biased interpretations of Mexican history insisted that the Hispanic...

Champions of Mexico in Ante-Bellum America.(history of US-Mexico relations)
September 22, 2001... In his debate with Al Gore over the NAFTA Treaty in October of 1994, Ross Perot condemned Mexico as a destitute and authoritarian society where citizens aspire to nothing more dignified than owning their own outhouse (New York Times 15 Oct....

Joaquin Murieta, Mexican history, and popular myths of freedom.
September 22, 2001... Joaquin Murieta, the celebrated California bandit, was a real man whose legendary leadership of a band of bandits during the Gold Rush era quickly became the subject of myth. His exploits were often combined with those of other "Joaquins" of...

Mexico's vision of Manifest Destiny during the 1847 war.
September 22, 2001... Introduction The war between Mexico and the United States was a landmark in the historical development of both countries. The present study will show how Anglo-Americans used the doctrine of Manifest Destiny to rationalize the Mexican...

History, culture, and the Mexican-American War: Robert Lewis Taylor's 'Two Roads to Guadalupe'.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... I vividly remember standing outside the movie theatre in Berkley, Michigan. While the theatre was officially known as the Berkley Theatre, the kids usually referred to it as "the roach." I was waiting, with quarter in hand, in a huge line to...

The American invasion of New Mexico and Mexican merchants.
September 22, 2001... Declaring war against Mexico in May of 1846, the American government sent an invasion into northern New Mexico under the command of General Stephen W. Kearny and the "Army of the West." The American invasion followed the route of the Santa Fe...

Popular fiction and the U.S.-Mexico war: Thomas Mayne Reid's the rifle rangers (1850) and John Ludlmn McConnel's talbot and vernon (1850).
September 22, 2001... The 1846-1848 war between the United States and Mexico was a deeply problematic one with its roots in the population expansion of Texas in the 1820s, the rise of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna to power in Mexico in the 1830s, and the...

The cross and the compass: Manifest destiny, religious aspects of the Mexican-American War.
September 22, 2001... As a friend said, "Manifest destiny and the Mexican-American War are a well-mined field!" As I began to read, I realized how true this was! It has been well-discussed, from both sides of the border. Nevertheless, I hope that considering the...

The legacy of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on Tejanos' land.
September 22, 2001... During the second half of the twentieth century, several changes have occurred in the study of Mexican Americans in the present-day Southwest. Both historians and sociologists developed an interest in studying Mexican American's social,...

Manifest Destiny and the Trans-Mississippi South: Natural laws and the extension of slavery into Mexico.
September 22, 2001... Although the end of the Mexican War seemed to mark the demise of the "All Mexico" movement, many Americans and Southerners still believed that it was the United States' Manifest Destiny to eventually rule the continent. Time would gradually...

"Extending the light and blessings of our purer faith": Anti-Catholic sentiment among American soldiers in the U.S.-Mexican War.
September 22, 2001... On May 20, 1846, in Claiborne, Alabama, William F. McRee had an idea for a solution to the war with Mexico. A Protestant preacher and longtime correspondent of President James K. Polk, McRee proposed to the president that the war be decided...

"The precious, the priceless right of way across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec" (1846-1849).
September 22, 2001... Beginning in the 1820's, the United States government became actively interested in facilitating commerce between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by obtaining rights of trade across either the Isthmus of Panama or the Isthmus of Tehuantepec....

The regional conflict, the contractors, and the construction projects of a road to the Pacific at the end of the war between Mexico and the United States.
September 22, 2001... Antecedents It is well known that the Mexican War, besides considerably enlarging the territory of the United States, also worsened the arguments between the North and the South and caused problems that arose during the years following...

The dialogic genres of Oprah Winfrey's "Crying Shame".
September 22, 2001... Over a decade ago, Lawrence Grossberg wrote of the "indifference of television," by which he meant a number of things, including that "there is little relation between the TV's being on and either the presence of bodies in front of it or...

The battle for local identity: An ethnographic description of local/global tensions in a New Zealand advertisement.
September 22, 2001... The following rap was performed on New Zealand television in 1995 as part of an advertisement for Primo. Primo is a banana, chocolate, or strawberry flavored milk drink aimed at the teenage market. The rapper was white, had an American...

Literary retailing and the (re)making of popular reading.
September 22, 2001... Talk is no longer cheap. Moreover, according to most major book publishers and retailers it's been downright difficult to find in most communities across the country--that was, at least, until the recent rise in the popularity of book clubs....