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Other| May 01 2010 In This Issue Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 213–214. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-90-2-213 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation In This Issue. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 May 2010; 90 (2): 213–214. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-90-2-213 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search Who belonged in the past — and who in the future — of a modern nation? As the three essays in this issue make clear, contests over the definition and protection of national patrimony recurred across Latin America at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth. Those who wished to narrow or broaden the bounds of inclusion in the evolving republics had to make their case with reference to biological and cultural inheritance understood as national in scope. Which immigrants could be admitted, and with what consequences? Which Indians merited a voice, or a vote? Whose biological reproduction should states facilitate? Whose cultural production should states claim as their own?As Christina Bueno demonstrates in “Forjando Patrimonio: The Making of Archaeological Patrimony in Porfirian Mexico,” Porfirian intellectuals countered North Atlantic assessments of Mexicans as racially inferior and irredeemably uncivilized by embracing the preconquest past,... Issue Section: Other You do not currently have access to this content.