Please, Joseph, tell me.... Where did you find this Dissertation Abstract? I'ts simply fascinating!!! So it's WASN'T JUST ME who noticed something interesting about the people of Los Altos de Jalisco. The whole thing sounds very, very interesting!! Reminds me very much of my own family's history. Sounds like the author is undoubtedly an Alten~o himself.
And notice the name of the author, Jose Orozco. Must be one of my primos from the TELLO DE OROZCO clan, a descendant of the first Governor of Nueva Galicia, Doctor Geronimo de Orozco, to be sure. I co-wrote a definitive article on the Tello de Orozco family of Nueva Galicia in SHHAR's Genealogical Journal, Vol. V (2003).
When I did my Bachelor's Thesis back in 2001, I pointed out how the Cristero Rebellion was directly responsible for the "Los Altos Diaspora." After the federal government rounded people up like cattle and relocated them to refugee camps outside Los Altos--and in many large cities like Leon, Ocotlan, Guadalajara, and Aguascalientes--Los Altos has never been the same since. Just like the author mentions, since those Reconcentraciones back in 1927, 1928, and 1929, and after other horrible atrocities, many Alten~os migrated to Mexico's larger cities or to the United States, in search of a better life.
That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
Steven H.
In a message dated 18/12/2004 12:56:09 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, makas@... writes:
Record 27 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1997-2000
TI: "ESOS ALTOS DE JALISCO!": EMIGRATION AND THE IDEA OF ALTENO
EXCEPTIONALISM, 1926-1952 (MEXICO)
AU: OROZCO-JOSE
DN: PHD
DD: 1998
SN: HARVARD-UNIVERSITY (0084)
AD: WOMACK-JOHN JR.
PG: 297
LA: ENGLISH
AB: Covering the years between 1926 and 1950, this study is both a
social history of the Mexican region known as Los Altos de Jalisco and a
cultural history of the manner in which the people of this region (know
as Altenos) and their supposed Hispanic culture came to be the living
embodiment of a non-Indian sense of Mexican national identity. Weaving
the history of post-Revolutionary Mexican politics with varied aspects
of Mexican life, this study explores the manner in which the creation of
the modern Mexican state, both as an institutionalized political order
and as form of consciousness and being, was crucially shaped by Mexico's
socio-racial dilemma. I explain specifically how and why Altenos were
seen and came to see themselves--much like the Cowboy in the United
States, the Gaucho in Argentina, and the Voor-Trekker in South
Africa--as the supreme example of Mexico's nation soul.
Using previously unexplored municipal archives, oral histories, and
popular forms of entertainment, the study argues that the Cristero
Rebellion of 1926-1929, the central state's attempt to break the regions
political autonomy, and the emigration of a huge proportion of the
region's working population, brought about radical changes in the
economic, political, and cultural organization of the region that left
it and its population subject to the peering eyes of the central state,
Mexican Hispanistas, and the quickly industrializing popular culture
industry. The efforts of these parties to create tequila-drinking,
mariachi-singing cultural figure that was the racial and cultural
antithesis of the Indian icon promoted by Indigenista intellectuals and
politicians culminated in the 1940s with the crowning of the Alteno as
Mexico's anti-Indian national icon. Altenos accepted and participated in
creating many of the tenets of Alteno exceptionalism; but did so only
after many of the region's population left their homes to emigrate to
the United States or one of Mexico's larger cities. This study focuses
on this process and shows how emigration created the conditions wherein
Altenos became active agents in their own mythification.
SU: History-Latin-American (0336); History-Modern (0582);
Anthropology-Cultural (0326)
SO: VOLUME 59-01A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 287.
NO: AAI9822919
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TI: CON SAL Y LIMON: A SURVEY OF THE TEQUILA INDUSTRY IN JALISCO (MEXICO)
AU: ROSCOE-RICHARD-POWELL
DN: AM
DD: 1958
SN: THE-UNIVERSITY-OF-CHICAGO (0330)
PG: 74
LA: ENGLISH
SU: Geography (0366)
SO: VOLUME S0330.
NO: AAITM04451
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Record 34 of 80 in Dissertation Abstracts 1992-1996
TI: LAND TENURE, MARKETS, AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
JALISCO, 1915-1940 (MEXICO)
AU: CUEVA-RAMIREZ-LUIS-GEORGE
DN: PHD
DD: 1994
SN: UNIVERSITY-OF-CALIFORNIA-SAN-DIEGO (0033)
AD: YOUNG-ERIC-VAN
PG: 453
LA: ENGLISH
AB: This dissertation explores the relationship between systems of land
tenure and commercial agricultural production in the area of central and
southern Jalisco. The central theme is that the efforts of the Cardenas
administration to dismantle the haciendas and radically restructure the
agrarian economy were essential to removing remaining barriers to
capitalist expansion in the countryside. The ejido system created under
the Mexican agrarian reform between 1915 and 1934 did not allow the
peasantry to participate successfully in agricultural production within
the structures of the market economy. As a consequence of their
exclusion from agrarian markets, the rural population suffered
unemployment, low wages, marginalization, hunger and malnutrition, and
many were ultimately forced to emigrate. After twenty years of agrarian
reform, little had changed. But by the mid-1930s, with the onset of the
global economic depression of 1929, these conditions were exacerbated.
Finally, in 1934, efforts were undertaken by the government not only to
dismantle latifundismo, but to introduce strict market controls over
production, distribution, and prices in the agrarian sector. The control
mechanisms enacted over market forces were designed to allow the
peasantry greater opportunities to expand their income, and thus become
more capable of sustaining their families. This study is based on
extensive primary documentation taken from the Archivo Historico de
Jalisco, and depicts the history of both hacendados and ejidatarios from
their own perspective and in their own words.
SU: History-Latin-American (0336)
SO: VOLUME 56-02A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 673.
NO: AAI9519478
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