Question: Choose one.
1. Consider how art and sculpture show how Mexicans, especially Mexican men, tried to recover their masculinity through economic and social reform. Cite each author and refer to the Manuel Vilar's sculpture when composing the answer. (HINT: why would Vilar's sculpture, though executed nearly forty years after the fight for independence, be representative of the way some Mexicans saw themselves?)
2. During the war for independence, Father Miguel Hidalgo and other Mexicans wanted freedom from Spain. But why is it significant that a priest started the rebellion, and why is it significant that a priest continued the rebellion? Proceed carefully and consider what you will say before composing your response. The answer to this question is quite simple, but you must think long and hard to find the appropriate explanation. Write at least two pages. Cite each author at least once and cite at least image.
Readings:
1. E-Reserves, Jaime E. Rodríguez, Down from Colonialism, Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Research Center, 1983, pp. 1-31.
2. E-Reserves, Hugh Hamill, The Hidalgo Revolt, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1970), pp.53-60, 117-141.
3. E-Reserves., D. A. Brading, "Liberals and Patriots," and "Insurgent Creole," in The First America, (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 561-602
Images:
4. E-Reserves, Manuel Vilar, "The Tlaxcalan General Tlahuicole Doing Battle on the Gladiator's Stone" (1851)
5. E-Reserves, Diego Rivera, "Father Miguel Hidalgo,"
6. E-Reserves, Juan O'Gorman, "Father Hidalgo"
7. E-Reserves, José Clemente Orozco, "Father Hidalgo" en el Palacio de Gobierno de Guadalajara.
It is important to cite the readings and the images.
Length: 2 double spaced pages
Attachment:- Readings and Images.rar