Christina A Sue

Land of the Cosmic Race

Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

Land of the Cosmic Race is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a previously untold story of how individuals in contemporary urban Mexico construct their identities, attitudes, and practices in the context of a dominant national belief system that promotes race mixture, asserts the absence of racism in the country, but marginalizes blackness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780199925506
• ISBN-10: 019992550X
• Artikelnr.: 40541540

Autorenporträt

Christina A. Sue is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Chapter 1: Introduction
* Chapter 2: Mapping the Veracruz Race-Color Terminological Terrain
* Chapter 3: Beneath the Surface of Mixed-Race Identities
* Chapter 4: Mestizos' Attitudes on Race Mixture
* Chapter 5: Inter-Color Couples and Mixed-Color Families in a
Mixed-Race Society
* Chapter 6: Situating Blackness in a Mestizo Nation
* Chapter 7: Silencing and Explaining Away Racial Discrimination
* Chapter 8: What's at Stake? Racial Common Sense and Securing a
Mexican National Identity
* Epilogue: The Turn of the Twenty-First Century: An Ideological Shift?
* Appendix
* References
* Index