header by Emerson Taymor, 2005

1. Pre-Columbian Mexico

2. The Conquest

3. Colonial Mexico

4. The Nineteenth Century

5. The Revolution

6. Mexico Since 1920

7. Theories of Mexicanidad

8. Borderlands and comparative history

Chapter 7: Theories of Mexicanidad

Fuentes, "Chac-Mool"

Paz, "The Sons of La Malinche"

Poinsett, "The Mexican Character"

Vasconcelos, "The Cosmic Race"

from Luis Alberto Urrea, The Hummingbird's Daughter