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en-wikipedia-org-1575		Maria Cristina Mena - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4468	380	65	Mena reached an audience of predominantly middleand upper-class white Americans by writing for The Century Magazine, which in quality and quantity was among the leading general monthly periodicals at the time.[citation needed] Increased immigration during the early twentieth century challenged the magazine's erudite readership, who struggled for a distinctive national identity; Century editors responded by publishing fiction that encouraged xenophobia and domestic homogeneity, or what they termed a "common quality." Articles in Century promoted an exotic and demeaning view of foreign cultures through focus on negative stereotypes; photographs and illustrations lent seeming authenticity to these depictions. Schuller ties Mexico's long history with cosmetic surgery to Mena's stories via an analysis of these stories about beauty, that appear to treat it as a fundamental indicator of racial wealth, and explores these female characters that appropriate the American beauty industry in their own terms, which marks them as examples of Mexican resistance to United States-led modernization.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1575.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1575.txt