Land of the cosmic race
Subtitle: race mixture, racism, and blackness in Mexico
By: Christina A. Sue
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780199925483; 9780199925506
Subjects: Mestizos; Race relations; Miscegenation; Race identity; Mestizaje; Racism; Race awareness; Mexican National characteristics; Blacks; Ethnicity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mapping the Veracruz race-color terminological terrain; title: Beneath the surface of mixed-race identities; title: Mestizos' attitudes on race mixture; title: Inter-color couples and mixed-color families in a mixed-race society; title: Situating blackness in a mestizo nation; title: Silencing and explaining away racial discrimination; title: What's at stake? : racial common sense and securing a Mexican national identity; title: Epilogue : the turn of the twenty-first century : an ideological shift?