The Mestizo State

Reading Race in Modern Mexico

Bibliographic Data

ID20031875
AuthorsJoshua Lund (0000-0002-8830-4468, corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages248
Publication date2012-06-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe mestizo state (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5749/minnesota/9780816656363.001.0001
OpenAlexW4206000271
Open LibraryOL25115754M
ISBN9780816656363
LanguageEN
Citations received15

The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, this book investigates the rise of a racialized “mestizo state,” its reinvention after the Mexican Revolution, and its mobilization as a critical lever that would act both on behalf of and against mainstream Mexican political culture during the long hegemony of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. The book takes race as its object of critical reflection in the context of modern Mexico. An analysis that does not confuse race with mestizaje, indigeneity, African identity, or whiteness, the book sheds light on the history of the materialism of race as it unfolds within the cultural production of modern Mexico, grounded on close readings of four writers whose work explicitly challenged the politics of race in Mexico: Luis Alva, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Rosario Castellanos, and Elena Garro. In seeking to address race as a cultural-political problematic, the book considers race as integral to the production of the materiality of Mexican national history: constitutive of the nation form, a mediator of capitalist accumulation, and a central actor in the rise of modernity

Aesthetics · Art · Cultural hegemony · Hegemony · Humanities · Mainstream · Materialism · Materiality (auditing) · Mexican State · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · History · History and criticism · Literature and society · Mestizaje in literature · Mestizos · Mexican literature · Mexican literature, history and criticism · Mexico · race relations

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