Redeeming La Raza
Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20026217 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriela Gonzalez (0000-0003-4543-7524, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Redeeming la Raza (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199914142.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2884579925 |
| ISBN | 9780199914142 |
| Open Library | OL34634850M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
This book examines the gendered and class-conscious political activism of Mexican-origin people in Texas from 1900 to 1950. In particular, it questions the inter-generational agency of Mexicans and Mexican Americans who subscribed to particular race-ethnic, class, and gender ideologies as they encountered barriers and obstacles in a society that often treated Mexicans as a nonwhite minority. Middle-class transborder activists sought to redeem the Mexican masses from body politic exclusions in part by encouraging them to become identified with the nation-state. Redeeming la raza was as much about saving them from traditional modes of thought and practices that were perceived as hindrances to progress as it was about saving them from race and class-based forms of discrimination that were part and parcel of modernity. At the center of this link between modernity and discriminatory practices based on social constructions lay the economic imperative for the abundant and inexpensive labor power that the modernization process required. Labeling groups of people as inferior helped to rationalize their economic exploitation in a developing modern nation-state that also professed to be a democratic society founded upon principles of political egalitarianism. This book presents cases of transborder activism that demonstrate how the politics of respectability and the politics of radicalism operated, often at odds but sometimes in complementary ways
Agency (philosophy) · Body politic · Democracy · Egalitarianism · Ideology · Middle class · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Race (biology) · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · biography · Mexican Americans · Mexican-American Border Region · politics and government · Texas
| Citations per year | 1.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |