(Note: I’ve posted comments and summaries of the texts of several books that I have had in my Master’s in Communications degree. This isn’t one of them, though it is by one the professors I have had for said degree. But it is the book I have most enjoyed reading from that academic background. I am sharing my own perspective on the book, and doubtless have missed much of the scholarly point and may even have misunderstood some of it. For the scholarly among you, I apologize for that. For the rest of you, I encourage you to read more deeply than you usually do with my “scholarly” reviews. This one is more fun, and more worth it.)
CODA: Between Dreams and Nightmares of “the Other”: Rural Michoacan in the Summer of 2013
And so he ends with a story. This is more a montage of his visit to the region in 2013, after a six-year gap. Now the story of the region has changed. Violence and the drug wars are what people hear about. It has made the art and tourist markets more difficult. Xavier and his family are still managing, in more tight straights, but they are fortunate ones that still survive.
It is a mixture of images that shows again the fluidity of the creating of identity, and of their striving to craft their own, as they craft their own masks.
It is an end that isn’t an end, but a reflection to the future.
At The Rainbow 