What’s Propaganda Got to do with it? Rethinking the Meaning of the 1940s in Mexico. A Review of Monica A. Rankin’s <em>¡México, la patria!: Propaganda and Production during World War II</em> (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.)

Authors

  • Joy Elizabeth Hayes University of Iowa

Keywords:

World War II, Mexico, Monica Rankin, history

Abstract

Monica A. Rankin combed through thousands of documents in over a dozen archives in Mexico and the U.S. to produce this comprehensive history of World War II propaganda in Mexico.  México la patria details the objectives of governmental and non-governmental propaganda agencies and carefully describes the specific propaganda texts that they produced—from posters to radio series.  Rankin analyzes the way that propaganda producers engaged shifting concepts of la patria, the nation, as they juggled competing ideologies of post-revolutionary nationalism, fascism, Americanism, and modernization.

Author Biography

Joy Elizabeth Hayes, University of Iowa

Joy Elizabeth Hayes es profesora asociada de estudios comunicacionales en la Universidad de Iowa y es co-directora del Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Su investigación gira en torno a la historia cultural de la radiodifusión en Estados Unidos y México.  Sus publicaciones versan sobre la radio y la construcción del nacionalismo posrevolucionario en México, y su proyecto actual estudia el rol que la radio comunitaria juega en cuanto a intereses locales, nacionales y transnacionales en la esfera pública en México.

Published

2012-01-31

How to Cite

Hayes, J. E. (2012). What’s Propaganda Got to do with it? Rethinking the Meaning of the 1940s in Mexico. A Review of Monica A. Rankin’s <em>¡México, la patria!: Propaganda and Production during World War II</em> (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 9(2), 408–413. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/244

Issue

Section

Reviews: Culture, Politics and History in Mexico