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Author Sue, Christina A., author.

Title Land of the cosmic race : race mixture, racism, and blackness in Mexico / Christina A. Sue
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) : illustrations
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?
Summary This is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and colour 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ethnicity -- Mexico
Mestizaje -- Mexico
Miscegenation -- Mexico
Mestizos -- Race identity -- Mexico
Black people -- Race identity -- Mexico
National characteristics, Mexican.
Race awareness -- Mexico
Racism -- Mexico
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Black people -- Race identity
Ethnicity
Mestizaje
Miscegenation
National characteristics, Mexican
Race awareness
Race relations
Racism
SUBJECT Mexico -- Race relations
Subject Mexico
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0199332924
9780199332922
9780199925490
0199925496