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Land of the Cosmic Race - Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico (Hardcover)
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Land of the Cosmic Race - Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico (Hardcover)
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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.
The subjects of this book are mestizos - the mixed-race people of
Mexico who are of Indigenous, African, and European ancestry and
the intended consumers of this national ideology. Land of the
Cosmic Race illustrates how Mexican mestizos navigate the sea of
contradictions that arise when their everyday lived experiences
conflict with the national stance and how they manage these
paradoxes in a way that upholds, protects, and reproduces the
national ideology. Drawing on a year of participant observation,
over 110 interviews, and focus-groups from Veracruz, Mexico,
Christina A. Sue offers rich insight into the relationship between
race-based national ideology and the attitudes and behaviors of
mixed-race Mexicans. Most importantly, she theorizes as to why
elite-based ideology not only survives but actually thrives within
the popular understandings and discourse of those over whom it is
designed to govern.
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