Seen and Heard in Mexico — Albarrán '98 Baby So Conceived and So Dedicated

So Conceived and So Dedicated is organized around three questions: To what extent did educated Americans believe that the Civil War exposed the failure of old ideas

BOWDOIN embroidered on the back

Offering new photography and an accessible text

2019–2020

This book accompanies the summer 2020 exhibition

Seen and Heard in Mexico — Albarrán '98 Baby So Conceived and So DedicatedBy Elena Jackson Albarrn, Class of 1998 During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the beneficiaries of the largest percentage of the national budget. While most historical accounts of