Gringolandia
Subtitle: Mexican identity and perceptions of the United States
By: Stephen D. Morris.
Series: Latin American silhouettes
Publisher: SR Books; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Public opinion -- Mexico.; Group identity -- Mexico.; United States -- Foreign public opinion, Mexican.
Description: Mexico's views of the United States have been characterized as stridently anti-American, but recent policy changes in Mexico culminating with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) mark a fundamental transformation in Mexicos relationship with the U.S. This original book answers questions about the impact of these policy changes on Mexican nationalism and Mexicans perceptions of the U.S. Have popular and elite views of the U.S. changed? Has the governments anti-American rhetoric lost its political function and become anachronistic? How has Mexicos changed relationship with the U.S. affected Mexicans feelings of national identity and nationalism? Gringolandia analyzes Mexican views of the U.S. and contributes to our understanding of contemporary Mexico. Mexico is an excellent case study of the impact of globalization on a nation and its national identity because it is the only developing country to have entered into a free trade agreement with a developed country. A study of Mexico also allows us to consider how other countries perceive the U.S.an even more crucial question after the terrorist attacks of September 11. Mexico and the U.S. have an important relationship this book helps readers to better understand Mexicans feelings about that relationship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Analyzing perceptions of self and other; title: Gringolandia in the political discourse; title: Gringolandia in the school texts; title: Gringolandia in political caricature; title: Gringolandia in the writings of the intellectual elite; title: Gringolandia in the national cinema; title: Gringolandia in the consumer market; title: Gringolandia in public opinion; title: Mexican images of nation and neighbor.