Interest convergence in the Land of the Cosmic Race
Mexican anti-racism and the motivation question
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2149448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | René Rejón (0000-0001-5516-3278, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1432-1452 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2023.2292643 |
| OpenAlex | W4390587683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 40 |
Recent contributions to the academic literature describe Mexican racism as structural: an unintended blameless outcome of the combined actions of many individuals and institutions. This conceptualization appears to hamstring individual motivation for collective action: who is responsible for redressing the injustice and why? In this paper, I appeal to interest convergence - a key tenet of Critical Race Theory - to argue that Mexican anti-racism could gain from strategically identifying and communicating "shared predicaments" with the beneficiaries of racial injustice. Employing Grounded Normative Theory as a methodological approach and examining empirical research through [Jackson, Taharee. 2011. "Which Interests Are Served by the Principle of Interest Convergence? Whiteness, Collective Trauma, and the Case for Anti-racism." Race Ethnicity and Education 14 (4): 435-459] "disaggregation" of interest, I find hints of moral, psychological - even emotional and material - interest convergence between beneficiaries and victims of racial injustice in Mexico. I conclude that the contextual and erratic nature of Mexican racism could be strategically harnessed to produce social reform and advance racial equality
Anti-racism · Conceptualization · Convergence (economics · Critical race theory · Economics · Injustice · Prejudice (legal term · Racism · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Education Discipline and Inequality · Gender Studies · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology
National Colors
Emotion And Adaptation
Race and Marriage in the Labor Market
Responsibility and Global Justice
Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma
Just Responsibility
The Humble Cosmopolitan
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology
Iris Marion Young’s “Social Connection Model” of Responsibility
Land of the Cosmic Race
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Racial Formation in the United States
Black students’ narratives of diversity and inclusion initiatives and the campus racial climate
Unearthing grounded normative theory
Which interests are served by the principle of interest convergence? Whiteness, collective trauma, and the case for anti‐racism
Do Latin@ interests always have to “converge” with White interests?’
Distributing Responsibilities
Skin Color and Social Mobility
The Color of Electoral Success
Continental Philosophy since 1750
The White Working Class, Racism and Respectability
Critical race theory
Avoiding backlash
Distributed intensities
The Motivation Question
Humanity before Justice
Historically Rooted Transnationalism
Diversity as interest-convergence in academia
We Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans
Analytic Autoethnography
Skin Color and Colorism
The colours of lawmaking
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |