Land of the Cosmic Race is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a previously untold story of how individuals in contemporary urban Mexico construct their identities, attitudes, and practices in the context of a dominant national belief system. The book centers around Mexicans' engagement with three racialized pillars of Mexican national ideology - the promotion of race mixture, the assertion of an absence of racism in the country, and the marginalization of blackness in Mexico.…mehr
Land of the Cosmic Race is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a previously untold story of how individuals in contemporary urban Mexico construct their identities, attitudes, and practices in the context of a dominant national belief system. The book centers around Mexicans' engagement with three racialized pillars of Mexican national ideology - the promotion of race mixture, the assertion of an absence of racism in the country, and the marginalization of blackness in Mexico.
Christina A. Sue is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * Chapter 1: Introduction * Chapter 2: Mapping the Veracruz Race-Color Terminological Terrain * Chapter 3: Beneath the Surface of Mixed-Race Identities * Chapter 4: Mestizos' Attitudes on Race Mixture * Chapter 5: Inter-Color Couples and Mixed-Color Families in a Mixed-Race Society * Chapter 6: Situating Blackness in a Mestizo Nation * Chapter 7: Silencing and Explaining Away Racial Discrimination * Chapter 8: What's at Stake? Racial Common Sense and Securing a Mexican National Identity * Epilogue: The Turn of the Twenty-First Century: An Ideological Shift? * Appendix * References * Index
* Acknowledgements * Chapter 1: Introduction * Chapter 2: Mapping the Veracruz Race-Color Terminological Terrain * Chapter 3: Beneath the Surface of Mixed-Race Identities * Chapter 4: Mestizos' Attitudes on Race Mixture * Chapter 5: Inter-Color Couples and Mixed-Color Families in a Mixed-Race Society * Chapter 6: Situating Blackness in a Mestizo Nation * Chapter 7: Silencing and Explaining Away Racial Discrimination * Chapter 8: What's at Stake? Racial Common Sense and Securing a Mexican National Identity * Epilogue: The Turn of the Twenty-First Century: An Ideological Shift? * Appendix * References * Index
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