Tag: Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa

  • “We Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans”: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico Critical Sociology Published online before print 2015-06-18 DOI: 10.1177/0896920515591296 Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Emiko Saldívar, Associate Project Scientist Department of Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara This article analyses the conflicting understandings surrounding…

  • Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism Feminist Theory Volume 14, Number 2, August 2013   pages 137-151 DOI: 10.1177/1464700113483241 Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University  With a focus on appearance and racialised perceptions of skin colour, this paper discusses the differences between being and feeling acceptable, pretty or ugly and…

  • Distributed intensities: Whiteness, mestizaje and the logics of Mexican racism Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 3, September 2010 pages 387-401 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810372305 Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University By analysing racist moments, this article engages with debates about the existence of racism in Mexico and how whiteness, as an expression of such racism,…