Persephone Braham
Readings and activities for Mexico class, Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Websites 

The Conquest of Mexicohttp://www.theaha.org/tl/LessonPlans/ca/Fitch/index.htm

  1. Read the Interpretive Overview, http://www.theaha.org/tl/LessonPlans/ca/Fitch/nf2.html
  2. Read the section Religious Conflicts, http://www.theaha.org/tl/LessonPlans/ca/Fitch/religion.htm
  3. Read the comparative texts under "Mexica sacrifice Spaniards," http://www.theaha.org/tl/LessonPlans/ca/Fitch/sacrifice2.htm
  4. Compare the images of Malinche and Cortés by Diego Rivera http://www.theaha.org/tl/LessonPlans/ca/Fitch/brivera.htm
  5. and José Clemente Orozco, http://www.theaha.org/tl/LessonPlans/ca/Fitch/borosco.htm
Immigration: Mexico http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/mexican.html
  1. Read all the sections in The Mexican Immigration history (follow links at bottom of page.
  2. Then click Interviews at top of page, View Immigrant Interviews, and select "America, North" to read the six interviews from Mexican immigrants.
  3. Make a list of three elements the majority of the interviews have in common.
Article to be provided as paper copy on 11/2/05 in class:

Floyd Merrell, "Particular Mexican Ways," in The Mexicans: A Sense of Culture.Cambridge, MA: Westview, 2003.