Monica G Moreno Figueroa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica G Moreno Figueroa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica G Moreno |
| FAMILY NAME | Figueroa |
| SIGNATURE | FIGUEROA M G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2877-3972 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Entre confusiones y distracciones: Mestizaje y racismo anti-negro en México
El argumento central que presento en este artículo es que la pieza clave que mantiene al mestizaje como proyecto racial mexicano en operación, y por ende la estabilidad de la identidad nacional, es el racismo anti-negro. Es más, una característica permanente y necesaria para el proyecto del mestizaje es una aversión continua a la negridad o lo ‘negro’ como idea, y un desfavorecimiento persistente de, la población racializada como negra. Esto quie…
We Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico
This article analyses the conflicting understandings surrounding the recognition of anti-black racism in Mexico, drawing from an analysis of the 2005 controversy around Memín Pinguín. We ask what is at stake when opposition arises to claims of racism, how racial disavowal is possible, and how is it that the racial project of mestizaje (racial and cultural mixture) expresses a form of Mexican post-racial ideology. We argue that the ideology of mes…
On dancing, lipstick and feminism: A response to Kathy Davis
Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism
With a focus on appearance and racialised perceptions of skin colour, this paper discusses the differences between being and feeling acceptable, pretty or ugly and the possibility of such displacement (from being to feeling or vice versa), as a way to understand what beauty does in people's lives. The paper explores the fragility of beauty in relation to the visibility of the body in specific racialised contexts. It investigates the claim that be…
Beauty, race and feminist theory in Latin America and the Caribbean
Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico
Mestiza/o is a racial category that emerged as a key component of the ideological myth of formation of the Mexican nation, namely mestizaje, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In such a project of state formation, Mexican is equivalent to Mestiza. It refers to those who represent Mexicanness and therefore those who are closer to the model of the ideal subjects of the Mexican Mestiza nation. Mestizaje, as this ideological fr…
Distributed intensities: Whiteness, mestizaje and the logics of Mexican racism
By analysing racist moments, this article engages with debates about the existence of racism in Mexico and how whiteness, as an expression of such racism, operates. It draws on empirical research that explores Mexican women’s understandings of mestizaje (mixed-race discourses) and experiences of racism. It assesses how racism is lived, its distributed intensity, within the specific racist logics that organize everyday social life. I build upon ar…
Looking emotionally: Photography, racism and intimacy in research
In this article I argue the need for a reflexive use of photographic images in research, mainly in the publication and dissemination phase and specifically when the topic investigated relates to issues of visibility, in this case racism and understandings of beauty. This analysis draws on my work on contemporary practices of racism in Mexico, where personal photographs were used as research tools in life-story interviews, creating a sense of shar…
Historically Rooted Transnationalism: Slightedness and the Experience of Racism in Mexican Families
An interest in engaging with what emotions do, rather than what emotions are, and in the pervasiveness of everyday racism, guides this exploration of Mexican family life. Drawing on women's life story interviews, and in particular on their discussions of childhood, I analyse notions of resemblance, slightedness and care within family life to develop the notion of “racist logics”. Attention is paid to historically rooted transnational dimensions o…
Distributed intensities: Whiteness, mestizaje and the logics of Mexican racism
By analysing racist moments, this article engages with debates about the existence of racism in Mexico and how whiteness, as an expression of such racism, operates. It draws on empirical research that explores Mexican women’s understandings of mestizaje (mixed-race discourses) and experiences of racism. It assesses how racism is lived, its distributed intensity, within the specific racist logics that organize everyday social life. I build upon ar…
Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism
With a focus on appearance and racialised perceptions of skin colour, this paper discusses the differences between being and feeling acceptable, pretty or ugly and the possibility of such displacement (from being to feeling or vice versa), as a way to understand what beauty does in people's lives. The paper explores the fragility of beauty in relation to the visibility of the body in specific racialised contexts. It investigates the claim that be…
We Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico
This article analyses the conflicting understandings surrounding the recognition of anti-black racism in Mexico, drawing from an analysis of the 2005 controversy around Memín Pinguín. We ask what is at stake when opposition arises to claims of racism, how racial disavowal is possible, and how is it that the racial project of mestizaje (racial and cultural mixture) expresses a form of Mexican post-racial ideology. We argue that the ideology of mes…
Historically Rooted Transnationalism: Slightedness and the Experience of Racism in Mexican Families
An interest in engaging with what emotions do, rather than what emotions are, and in the pervasiveness of everyday racism, guides this exploration of Mexican family life. Drawing on women's life story interviews, and in particular on their discussions of childhood, I analyse notions of resemblance, slightedness and care within family life to develop the notion of “racist logics”. Attention is paid to historically rooted transnational dimensions o…
Beauty, race and feminist theory in Latin America and the Caribbean
Looking emotionally: Photography, racism and intimacy in research
In this article I argue the need for a reflexive use of photographic images in research, mainly in the publication and dissemination phase and specifically when the topic investigated relates to issues of visibility, in this case racism and understandings of beauty. This analysis draws on my work on contemporary practices of racism in Mexico, where personal photographs were used as research tools in life-story interviews, creating a sense of shar…
Entre confusiones y distracciones: Mestizaje y racismo anti-negro en México
El argumento central que presento en este artículo es que la pieza clave que mantiene al mestizaje como proyecto racial mexicano en operación, y por ende la estabilidad de la identidad nacional, es el racismo anti-negro. Es más, una característica permanente y necesaria para el proyecto del mestizaje es una aversión continua a la negridad o lo ‘negro’ como idea, y un desfavorecimiento persistente de, la población racializada como negra. Esto quie…
Looking emotionally: Photography, racism and intimacy in research
In this article I argue the need for a reflexive use of photographic images in research, mainly in the publication and dissemination phase and specifically when the topic investigated relates to issues of visibility, in this case racism and understandings of beauty. This analysis draws on my work on contemporary practices of racism in Mexico, where personal photographs were used as research tools in life-story interviews, creating a sense of shar…
Historically Rooted Transnationalism: Slightedness and the Experience of Racism in Mexican Families
An interest in engaging with what emotions do, rather than what emotions are, and in the pervasiveness of everyday racism, guides this exploration of Mexican family life. Drawing on women's life story interviews, and in particular on their discussions of childhood, I analyse notions of resemblance, slightedness and care within family life to develop the notion of “racist logics”. Attention is paid to historically rooted transnational dimensions o…
Distributed intensities: Whiteness, mestizaje and the logics of Mexican racism
By analysing racist moments, this article engages with debates about the existence of racism in Mexico and how whiteness, as an expression of such racism, operates. It draws on empirical research that explores Mexican women’s understandings of mestizaje (mixed-race discourses) and experiences of racism. It assesses how racism is lived, its distributed intensity, within the specific racist logics that organize everyday social life. I build upon ar…
Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico
Mestiza/o is a racial category that emerged as a key component of the ideological myth of formation of the Mexican nation, namely mestizaje, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In such a project of state formation, Mexican is equivalent to Mestiza. It refers to those who represent Mexicanness and therefore those who are closer to the model of the ideal subjects of the Mexican Mestiza nation. Mestizaje, as this ideological fr…
Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism
With a focus on appearance and racialised perceptions of skin colour, this paper discusses the differences between being and feeling acceptable, pretty or ugly and the possibility of such displacement (from being to feeling or vice versa), as a way to understand what beauty does in people's lives. The paper explores the fragility of beauty in relation to the visibility of the body in specific racialised contexts. It investigates the claim that be…
Beauty, race and feminist theory in Latin America and the Caribbean
On dancing, lipstick and feminism: A response to Kathy Davis
We Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico
This article analyses the conflicting understandings surrounding the recognition of anti-black racism in Mexico, drawing from an analysis of the 2005 controversy around Memín Pinguín. We ask what is at stake when opposition arises to claims of racism, how racial disavowal is possible, and how is it that the racial project of mestizaje (racial and cultural mixture) expresses a form of Mexican post-racial ideology. We argue that the ideology of mes…
Entre confusiones y distracciones: Mestizaje y racismo anti-negro en México
El argumento central que presento en este artículo es que la pieza clave que mantiene al mestizaje como proyecto racial mexicano en operación, y por ende la estabilidad de la identidad nacional, es el racismo anti-negro. Es más, una característica permanente y necesaria para el proyecto del mestizaje es una aversión continua a la negridad o lo ‘negro’ como idea, y un desfavorecimiento persistente de, la población racializada como negra. Esto quie…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Racism (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)