Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Boyer, Christopher R. | Copyright information

Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico. By Alexander S. Dawson (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xxvi plus 222 pp. $45.00).

In 2001, the Mexican government approved a constitutional amendment that purported to give indigenous communities important new rights and thus to address the most imperative demands put forth by the indigenous guerrillas of the state of Chiapas. In fact, the new law did no such thing and essentially confirmed the status quo. Indian and ...

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