Introduction:; - Linda Egan and Mary K. Long; PART 1. Separate and Unequal: Mexico Struggles for Autonomy, 1920-1960; Chapter 1. Writing Home: The United States Through the Eyes of Traveling Mexican Artists and Writers, 1920-1940; - Mary K. Long; Chapter 2. Vasconcelos as Screenwriter: Bolivar Remembered; - Robert Conn; Chapter 3. Salvador Novo: The American Friend, the American Critic; - Salvador A. Oropesa; Chapter 4.

From the Silver Screen to the Land: Confronting the United States and Hollywood in ""El Indio"" Fernandez's The Pearl; - Fernando Fabio Sanchez; Part 2. Inseparable Differences: Mexico Adapts U.S. Models, 1960-1990; Chapter 5. Carlos Monsivais ""Translates"" Tom Wolfe; - Linda Egan; Chapter 6. From Fags to Gays: Political Adaptations and Cultural Translations in the Mexican Gay Liberation Movement; - Hector Dominguez-Rivalcaba; Chapter 7. Misguided Idealism on a Mission of Mercy: Eleanore Wharton, U.S.

Do-Gooder; - Danny J. Anderson; Chapter 8. ""La pura gringuez"": The Essential United States in Jose Agustin, Carlos Fuentes, and Ricardo Aguilar Melantzon; - Maarten van Delden; Part 3. At Home with the Other: Mexico Deals with Virtual Nationhood, 1990 - Present; Chapter 9. If North Were South: Traps of Cultural Hybridity in Xavier Velasco's Diablo Guardian; - Oswaldo Estrada; Chapter 10. ""Mexican"" Novels on the Lesser United States by Andres Acosta, Juvenal Acosta, Boullosa, Puga, Servin, and Xoconostle; - Emily Hind; Chapter 11. Political Cartoons in Cyberspace: Rearticulating Mexican and U.S.

Cultural Identity in the Global Era; - Hilda Chacon; Chapter 12. A Clash of Civilizing Gestures: Mexican Intellectuals Confront a Harvard Scholar; - Ignacio Corona; Chapter 13. Jorge Ramos Reads North from South; - Beth E. Jorgensen.