CALL FOR PAPERS
MEXICO AS SUBJECT OF US DEBATE IN THE
PRE-CIVIL WAR ERA, 1820-1861
The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Associations and American Culture
Associations are holding a series of panels at the next meeting of these
regional groups, February 9-12, 2000 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at
the Sheraton Oldtown Hotel. We met there last year and it was a perfect
venue for us with sights, sounds, tastes, and museums of the Southwest.
Papers wanted on how Mexico figured in the sectional rivalry during the
antebellum period. The issues of Slavery, Manifest Destiny, Sectional
Rivalry, and outright War are all relevant to this fascinating middle period
in the relations between the United States and Mexico --a period which
determined many of the images and stereotypes to dominate discussions of
Mexico in later times.
Likely topics:
Immigration into Texas during the Mexican Period and Rising Tensions with
Mexico.
Congress and the debate over the admission of Texas into the Union
The Mexican-American War
Slavery in the "New South"
Slavery (or lack of it) in Mexico
Southwestern Humor (a la Kenneth S. Lynn's book, Mark
Twain and Southwestern Humor)
Mexican motifs & allusions in pre-Civil War literature.
Images of Mexican players in Pulp Literature and Popular Culture
The rise of Manifest Destiny as a national ideology in the late Jacksonian
Period
Opponents of the annexation of Texas and of the Mexican American War.
Movies about the Mexican American War
The recent debate over variations of The Alamo Story..
Recent Documentary Efforts by PBS on the Mexican American War.
Papers treating any aspect of the topic are welcome. Deadline for
proposals, December 1, 1999
Please respond to the Area Chair:
Professor Lyon Rathbun
Penn State, Worthington Scranton Campus
120 Ridge View Drive
Dunmore, PA 18512-1699
(570) 963-2655
Lor1@psu.edu
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