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.)

Resumen

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.