{"id":18352,"date":"2011-11-22T21:42:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T21:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18352"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:51:35","slug":"racial-alterity-in-the-mestizo-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18352","title":{"rendered":"Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/summary\/v014\/14.3.chang.html\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Asian American Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/toc\/jaas.14.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Number 3<\/a> (October 2011)<br \/>\npages 331-359<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.uconn.edu\/people\/jasonchang.php\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Oliver Chang<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The eviction of Chinese cotton farmers from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexicali\" target=\"_blank\">Mexicali, Baja California<\/a> serves as a focal point to explore the racial boundaries of dominant discourses of Mexican national identity. By examining the politics of agrarian reform, the article illustrates how the racial alterity of Chinese immigrants to national ideals served to consolidate diverse Mexican peoples as liberal <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizo\" target=\"_blank\">mestizo<\/a> racial subjects. <strong>Racial <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alterity\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>alterity<\/strong><\/a><strong> is further explored by tracing the lives of Mexican women who married Chinese men and their multi-ethnic children.<\/strong> Anti-Chinese politics and conscription of mestizo subjects were central themes in the Mexicanization of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baja_California\" target=\"_blank\">Baja California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/v014\/14.3.chang.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 331-359 Jason Oliver Chang, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies University of Connecticut The eviction of Chinese cotton farmers from Mexicali, Baja California serves as a focal point to explore the racial boundaries of dominant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,21,459,8,103],"tags":[8347,8346,8345,8344,4956,20753],"class_list":["post-18352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-baja-california","tag-jason-chang","tag-jason-o-chang","tag-jason-oliver-chang","tag-mexicali","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}