Tinoco repurposes fragments from The Golden Book Encyclopedia, originally created for children, alongside blank, vintage U.S. corporate stock certificates—two mid-century artifacts designed to instill national identity and economic order. By reconfiguring these materials, she dismantles the ideological foundations of postwar American historical narratives, exposing their underlying structures of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalist expansion. Drawing inspiration from Mexican-born artist Enrique Chagoya’s concept of “reverse anthropology”—a satirical, subversive approach that critiques Western culture through the lens of the colonized—Tinoco challenges the national meta-narratives embedded in these seemingly outdated objects. Her collages reveal how the myths of progress and development are inseparable from histories of violence, dispossession, patriarchy, and neoliberalism, and how these forces continue to shape the present.