VIVA MEXICO: The People

By: George Ancona
Publisher: Benchmark Books, 2001
Age Level: 9-12
Language: English
ISBN: 0-7614-1329-4

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Meet the Mexicans with all their diversity of races, beliefs, humor, warmth, and talents. The Pre-Columbian cultures that left behind depictions of their everyday lives in murals, temples, writings and carvings. The conquest opened up the new lands to European settlers and established a new race of native and whites. Paintings, drawings and murals tell the story of the Mexican people.