Introduction: The paradox of invisibility
Part One. Entre adelitas y cucarachas : the soldadera as trope in the Mexican Revolution
The soldadera and the making of revolutionary spaces
The many faces of the soldadera and the adelita complex
Beyond the "custom of her sex and country"
Part Two. The Blacks in the closet
Black magic and the Inquisition : the legend of La Mulata de Córdoba and the case of Antonia de Soto
"Dios pinta como quiere" : blackness and redress in Mexican golden age film
The music of the Afro-Mexican universe and the dialectics of Son
Conclusion: To be expressed otherwise.