{"id":26177,"date":"2013-02-09T02:24:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T02:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26177"},"modified":"2018-03-20T17:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T17:50:40","slug":"land-of-the-cosmic-race-race-mixture-racism-and-blackness-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26177","title":{"rendered":"Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Oxford University Press<\/a>
\nJanuary 2013
\n256 pages
\n2 photographs; 6-1\/8 x 9-1\/4
\nHardback ISBN13: 978-0-19-992548-3; ISBN10: 0-19-992548-8
\nPaperback ISBN13: 978-0-19-992550-6; ISBN10: 0-19-992550-X<\/p>\n

Christina A. Sue<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of Colorado, Boulder<\/em><\/p>\n

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Land of the Cosmic Race<\/em> is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color 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. The book centers around Mexicans’ engagement with three racialized pillars of Mexican national ideology – the promotion of race mixture, the assertion of an absence of racism in the country, and the marginalization of blackness in Mexico.<\/p>\n

The subjects of this book are mestizos\u2014the mixed-race people of Mexico who are of Indigenous, African, and European ancestry and the intended consumers of this national ideology. Land of the Cosmic Race<\/em> illustrates how Mexican mestizos navigate the sea of contradictions that arise when their everyday lived experiences conflict with the national stance and how they manage these paradoxes in a way that upholds, protects, and reproduces the national ideology. Drawing on a year of participant observation, over 110 interviews, and focus-groups from Veracruz, Mexico<\/a>, Christina A. Sue offers rich insight into the relationship between race-based national ideology and the attitudes and behaviors of mixed-race Mexicans. Most importantly, she theorizes as to why elite-based ideology not only survives but actually thrives within the popular understandings and discourse of those over whom it is designed to govern.<\/p>\n

Features<\/strong><\/p>\n