Our Suggested Course Texts pages list titles intended for classroom use. For a complete list of our titles on Mexico, go to our general Mexico page.
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Adoring the Saints
By Yolanda Lastra, Joel Sherzer, and Dina Sherzer
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Ballads of the Lords of New Spain
Transcribed and translated from the Nahuatl by John Bierhorst
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Hijos del Pueblo
By Deborah E. Kanter
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The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata
By Samuel Brunk
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Sex Work and the City
By Yasmina Katsulis
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Social Stratification in Central Mexico, 1500-2000
By Hugo G. Nutini and Barry L. Isaac
All Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan
By Peter S. Cahn
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora
By Norma Iglesias Prieto
Behind the Mexican Mountains
By Robert Zingg
Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico
By Tamara L. Underiner
Cooperation and Community
By Jeffrey H. Cohen
The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico
By Jeffrey H. Cohen
Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North
By Susan Deeds
Delirio—the Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Réel
By Marie Theresa Hernández
The Devil's Book of Culture
By Benjamin Feinberg
Drug War Zone
By Howard Campbell
Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border
By Américo Paredes
Globalization in Rural Mexico
By Frances Abrahamer Rothstein
Mary, Michael, and Lucifer
By John M. Ingham
Mesoamerican Healers
Edited by Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom
The Mexican Aristocracy
By Hugo G. Nutini
The Mixe of Oaxaca
By Frank J. Lipp
El Narcotraficante
By Mark Cameron Edberg
Of Wonders and Wise Men
By Terry Rugeley
Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race
By Marilyn Grace Miller
Rancheros in Chicagoacán
By Marcia Farr
Remembering Victoria
By James M. Taggart
San Jose de Gracia
By Luis González
Social Stratification and Mobility in Central Veracruz
By Hugo G. Nutini
So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico
By Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military
By Elizabeth Salas
Zapotec Science
By Roberto J. González
Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados
By Chad Richardson
Border Radio (revised edition)
By Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford
Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico
By Peter M. Ward
Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders
By Pablo Vila
Drug War Zone
By Howard Campbell
Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border
By Joan B. Anderson and James Gerber
Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border
By Américo Paredes
Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts
By Alejandro Lugo
La Gran Línea
By Paula Rebert
The Making of the Mexican Border
By Juan Mora-Torres
El Narcotraficante
By Mark Cameron Edberg
The River Has Never Divided Us
By Jefferson Morgenthaler
Straddling the Border
By Lisa Magaña
Violence and Activism at the Border
By Kathleen Staudt
"With His Pistol In His Hand"
By Américo Paredes
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora
By Norma Iglesias Prieto
Crafting Tradition
By Michael Chibnik
The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico
By Jeffrey H. Cohen
Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border
By Joan B. Anderson and James Gerber
Globalization in Rural Mexico
By Frances Abrahamer Rothstein
Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing
By Gilbert G. González
The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Jonathan C. Brown and Alan Knight
Understanding NAFTA
By William A. Orme, Jr.
Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema
By David William Foster
Women Filmmakers in Mexico
By Elissa J. Rashkin
Butterflies Will Burn
By Federico Garza Carvajal
Culture of Empire
By Gilbert G. González
Defending the Land of the Jaguar
By Lane Simonian
Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North
By Susan Deeds
Delirio—the Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Réel
By Marie Theresa Hernández
Intellectuals and the State in Twentieth-Century Mexico
By Roderic A. Camp
Jarano
By Ramón Beteta
La Revolución
By Thomas Benjamin
The Making of the Mexican Border
By Juan Mora-Torres
Peregrina
By Alma M. Reed
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military
By Elizabeth Salas
The Wind that Swept Mexico
Text by Anita Brenner
Women in Mexico
By Julia Tuñón Pablos
Yucatán's Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War
By Terry Rugeley
The Burning Plain
By Juan Rulfo
Confabulario and Other Inventions
By Juan José Arreola
The Contemporáneos Group
By Salvador A. Oropesa
Contemporary Mexican Women Writers
By Gabriella de Beer
The Edge of the Storm
By Agustín Yáñez
Pedro Páramo
By Juan Rulfo
Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988
By Cynthia Steele
The Shattered Mirror
By María Elena de Valdés
The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity
By John A. Ochoa
Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution
By Max Parra
Xicoténcatl
Translated by Guillermo Castillo-Feliú
Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico
By Tamara L. Underiner
Dissident Women
Edited by Shannon Speed, R. Aída Hernández Castillo, and Lynn M. Stephen
"Here, Our Culture Is Hard"
By Laura McClusky
Histories and Stories from Chiapas
By R. Aída Hernández Castillo
The Maya and Teotihuacan
Edited by Geoffrey E. Braswell
Maya History
By Tatiana Proskouriakoff
Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion
By Nicholas P. Higgins
Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town
By Christine Eber
See also Course Texts in Maya Studies
Culture of Empire
By Gilbert G. González
Mexican Anarchism after the Revolution
By Donald C. Hodges
Of Wonders and Wise Men
By Terry Rugeley
Palace Politics
By Jonathan Schlefer
Understanding NAFTA
By William A. Orme, Jr.
Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion
By Nicholas P. Higgins
Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics
By Victoria E. Rodríguez
Aztec and Maya Myths
By Karl Taube
Aztecs, Moors, and Christians
By Max Harris
Carnival and Other Christian Festivals
By Max Harris
The Devil's Book of Culture
By Benjamin Feinberg
Michoacán and Eden
By Bernardino Verástique
Of Wonders and Wise Men
By Terry Rugeley
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Stories in Red and Black
By Elizabeth Hill Boone
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora
By Norma Iglesias Prieto
Butterflies Will Burn
By Federico Garza Carvajal
Dissident Women
Edited by Shannon Speed, R. Aída Hernández Castillo, and Lynn M. Stephen
Every Woman Is a World
By Gayle Walker and Kiki Suárez
Remembering Victoria
By James M. Taggart
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military
By Elizabeth Salas
Staying Sober in Mexico City
By Stanley Brandes
Women Filmmakers in Mexico
By Elissa J. Rashkin
Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics
By Victoria E. Rodríguez
Women in Mexico
By Julia Tuñón Pablos