Land of the Cosmic Race Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico

Name: Land of the Cosmic Race Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico
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ISBN: 9780199925506

ISBN-10: 019992550X

ISBN-13: 9780199925506

Edition: 2013

Authors: Christina A. Sue

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Land of the Cosmic Raceis 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.The subjects of this book aremestizos- the mixed-race people of Mexico who are of Indigenous,…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/11/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English