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Author Janzen, Rebecca, 1985- author.

Title Liminal sovereignty : Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican culture / Rebecca Janzen
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series SUNY series in Latin American cinema
SUNY series in Latin American cinema.
Contents Intro; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction They Did Not Come to My Mexico; Exceptionality in Mexico; History and Current Practices of the Religious Groups; Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican and in US Popular Culture; Overview of Chapters; Chapter 1. Mennonites, Mormons, and the Registration of Foreigners in the 1930s and 1940s: A Rare Attempt to Promote Integration; Chapter 2. Whose Land Is It: Mormons, Ejidos, and Agrarian Reform; Chapter 3. Mennonites and Agrarian Reform: Can Mennonites be Mexican?
Chapter 4. Mennonites and Mormons in Mexico's Drug Wars: Criminals and Victims on Screen and in LiteratureChapter 5. Contact Zones in Stellet Licht [Silent Light] and in Las Mujeres Flores/The Flower Women; Chapter One Mennonites, Mormons, and the Registration of Foreigners in the 1930s and 1940s: A Rare Attempt to Promote Integration; Elena Farnsworth y Martineau Baker; The Registration in the Context of the Government's Nation-Building Policies; The Registration Cards in the Context of Policy and Cultures; An Overall Perspective; Gender Perspectives on Women
Gender Perspectives and Ideal MothersGender Perspectives of Men; A Perspective Based on the Use of Spanish; Chapter Two Whose Land Is It: Mormons, Ejidos, and Agrarian Reform; Mormon Colonization in Mexico; A Brief History of Agrarian Reform; Colonia Pacheco; Colonia Dublán, Colonia Juárez, and the Casas Grandes Ejido; Murder in Dublán: Mormons Killing Off Opponents in the 1930s; 1950s: Land Is Ineligible for Sale; Tension between Progress and Rights in the 1960s; Expansion Committee in the 1970s; Bureaucratic Inaction, 1979-81
2012-14: The Casas Grandes Ejido's Moral Weight and Legal PrecedentLeBaron Colony; Chapter Three Mennonites and Agrarian Reform: Can Mennonites be Mexican?; Mexican Scholars and Journalists' Ideas about Mennonites; Land Conflicts in Zacatecas; La Batea; La Honda; Chapter Four Mennonites and Mormons in Mexico's Drug Wars: Criminals and Victims on Screen and in Literature; The Development of the Drug Violence and Related Popular Culture; Works of Popular Culture That Feature Mennonites and Mormons; The Bridge; Eleanor's Personal Story; Eleanor and Two Adolescent Boys; Eleanor and Jaime
Los héroes del norteMacBurro; Los güeros del norte and México: 45 voces contra la barbarie; Chapter Five Contact Zones in Stellet Licht [Silent Light] and Las Mujeres Flores/The Flower Women; Contact Zones, Photography, and the Representation of Death; Reygadas' Silent Light; Contact Zones in Silent Light; Voth Family Breakfast, Johan's Conversation with a Friend, and Radio Music; Technology Overtakes Johan's Conversation with his Father and Esther Working in the Fields; Johan's Tryst with Marianne, and the Voth Children in a Stranger's Van
Summary Examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. The author focuses on representations of these groups in film, television, online comics, photography, and legal documents. Janzen argues that perceptions of Mennonites and Mormons illustrate broader trends in Mexican history. The government granted both communities significant exceptions to national laws to encourage them to immigrate; she argues that these foreshadow what is today called the Mexican state of exception. The groups? inclusion into the Mexican nation shows that post-Revolutionary Mexico was flexible with its central tenets of land reform and building a mestizo race. Janzen uses minority communities at the periphery to give us a new understanding of the Mexican nation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
SUBJECT Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fast
Subject Mennonites -- Mexico
Christianity and politics -- Mennonites -- History -- 20th century
Christianity and politics -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History -- 20th century
Christianity and politics -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Christianity and politics -- Mennonites
Christianity and politics -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christianity and politics
Mennonites
Mexico
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781438471044
1438471041