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The Enlightened Patrolman - Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City (Hardcover)
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The Enlightened Patrolman - Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City (Hardcover)
Series: Confluencias
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When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators
installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they
illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, Afro-descended, and plebeian
Spanish urbanites. The urban patrolmen, known as guarda faroleros,
or "lantern guards," maintained the streetlamps and attempted to
clear the streets of plebeian sexuality, embodiment, and
sociability, all while enforcing late colonial racial policies amid
frequent violent resistance from the populace. In The Enlightened
Patrolman Nicole von Germeten guides readers through Mexico City's
efforts to envision and impose modern values as viewed through the
lens of early law enforcement, an accelerated process of
racialization of urban populations, and burgeoning ideas of modern
masculinity. Germeten unfolds a tale of the losing struggle for
elite control of the city streets. As surveillance increased and
the populace resisted violently, a pause in the march toward
modernity ensued. The Enlightened Patrolman presents an innovative
study on the history of this very early law enforcement corps,
providing new insight into the history of masculinity and race in
Mexico, as well as the eighteenth-century origins of policing in
the Americas.
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