Like new Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization by Guillermo Bonfil Batalla

Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization by Guillermo Bonfil Batalla (1996-01-01)

Middle English Edition

This book takes on the myth of a homogeneous Mexican culture in which the Spanish and Indigenous cultures have properly mixed. Instead it tells the story of two separate cultures: one, the dominant culture which rules Mexico socially, politically, and economically, and of the second culture, the Indigenous culture which lives and thrives underneath the dominant one. Often times the dominant culture will share pride in it's Indigenous past, praising the Aztecs, using their imagery and glory, while at the same time ignoring, suppressing, and often marginalizing its indigenous present. It is this hypocrisy or duality (depending on your point of view) that this book takes on.