Chino

Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19965601
AutoresJason Oliver Chang (autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Páginas278
Fecha de publicación2017-03-15
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaChino (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/illinois/9780252040863.001.0001
OpenAlexW4234261643
Open LibraryOL27418324M
ISBN9780252040863
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas32

This book tells the history of anti-Chinese politics in Mexican culture. It reveals the hidden influence that anti-Chinese racism, or antichinismo, has had on the formation of the revolutionary government and mestizo national identity. The imagined racial figure of Chinese men created a profound impact in Mexican society. The book employs an Asian Americanist critique to evaluate Mexico as a racial state to discuss the political function of antichinismo at various points of national crisis. After the revolution, the social rights mandate of the 1917 constitution created a new rationality for the legitimacy and authority of the national state – to care for the good of the indigenous population. This book shows how Mexican politics relied upon racism against Chinese people to create polemical notions of the public good that helped generate new relationships between the government and the governed. The book is divided chronologically to attend to three major phases of antichinismo: the disposable worker, the killable subject, and the pernicious defiler. Through discourses of Chinese racial difference, diverse Mexican actors created alternative visions of the nation and helped rework the relationships of rule and consent. A regional approach to telling this national story illustrates that people took up antichinismo for different reasons but coalesced through the state ideology of revolutionary government’s mestizo nationalism

Constitution · Ideology · Legitimacy · National consciousness · National identity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Population · Racism · Sociology · State (computer science) · Gender Studies · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Synthesis and Biological Evaluation · Asians · History · Mexico · race relations · Social conditions