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Land of the cosmic race : race mixture, racism, and Blackness in Mexico /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sue, Christina A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Ethnicity > Mexico.
Mestizaje > Mexico.
Miscegenation > Mexico.
Mestizos > Race identity > Mexico.
Blacks > Race identity > Mexico.
National characteristics, Mexican.
Race awareness > Mexico.
Racism > Mexico.
Mexico > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Mapping the Veracruz race-color terminological terrain
  • Beneath the surface of mixed-race identities
  • Mestizos' attitudes on race mixture
  • Inter-color couples and mixed-color families in a mixed-race society
  • Situating blackness in a mestizo nation
  • Silencing and explaining away racial discrimination
  • What's at stake? : racial common sense and securing a Mexican national identity
  • Epilogue : the turn of the twenty-first century : an ideological shift?