Japanese 7A, 001 - Fall 2014 Introduction to Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture - John R Wallace Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

While the violence of the Mexican Revolution had subsided by 1917, the country still faced a number of daunting tasks in an ambience fraught with political, economic and intellectual crosscurrents. In this context, the new Mexican state launched an ambitious but highly contested cultural project that attempted to give artistic meaning to the Revolution. This talk will trace the development of the post-revolutionary order and its relationship to the state's cultural project, which encompassed a wide range of forms, from music, dance and art to radio, film and photography. Alex Saragoza is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. He formerly served as the Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and was subsequently Director of the UC Study Center in Mexico.