CAN's Bookstore has added "Cold War Exiles in Mexico: U.S. Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance" by Rebecca M. Schreiber, just published. The book from University of Minnesota Press details how the Cold War culture of political exile in the 1940s and 1950s precipitated the flight of many U.S. writers, artists and filmmakers to Mexico. As Schreiber recounts, among the first exiles to arrive were African-American visual artists Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White and John Wilson, followed by people blacklisted from Hollywood, like Dalton Trumbo and Hugo Butler. Schreiber examines the artists’ work with the printmaking collective Taller de Gráfica Popular and the screenwriters’ collaborations with filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel, as well as the influence of the U.S. exiles on artistic and political movements. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham