Mexico: Oaxaca
(see also Mexico, Mexico: Revolution & Mexico: PRI Regime)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Independent Media Center (Mexico).
In the Library: Articles
Carrasco, Pedro. "Sacerdote, profeta y brujo: la conformación del campo en un pueblo del Estado de Oaxaca, Mexico," Taller de Teología (México) 10 (1982):19-40.
Norget, Kristin. "Tlhe politics of liberation: the popular church, indigenous theology & grassroots mobilization in Oaxaca, Mexico," Latin American Perespectives 24 (9/97):96-127.
__________. "Progressive theology & popular religiosity in Oaxaca, Mexico," in C. Smith & J. Prokopy (eds.) Latin American Religion in Motion (NY, 1999), pp. 91-110.
Waterbury, Ronald. "Non-revolutionary peasants: Oaxaca compared to Morelos in the Mexican Revolution," Comparative Studies in Society & History 17 (1975):410-42.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
López Bárcenas, Francisco. Muertes sin fin: crónicas de la represión en la Región Mixteca Oaxaqueña (México: Ce-Acatl, 2002).
Muro González, Victor Gabriel. Iglesia y movimientos sociales en México, 1972-1987: los casos de Ciudad Juárez y el Istmo de Tehuantepec (Zamora: Colegio de Michoacán, 1994).
Weinberg, Bill. Homage to Chiapas: New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico (NY: Verso, 2000)
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"El chogui" [200?], dir. Felix Zurita, 57m. Young man living in misery seeks escape by emigrating to US with hopes of becoming a boxer.
"Un poquito de tanta verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth" [2007], dir. ?, 90m. From Corrugated Films.