{"id":3986,"date":"2009-12-21T01:39:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T01:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2016-12-27T15:57:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:57:43","slug":"african-mexicans-and-the-discourse-on-modern-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3986","title":{"rendered":"African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University Press of America<\/a>
\nJune 2004
\n136 pages
\nPaper ISBN: 0-7618-2858-3 \/ 978-0-7618-2858-7<\/p>\n

Marco Polo Hern\u00e1ndez Cuevas<\/a><\/strong>, Asssociate Professor of Spanish
\nNorth Carolina Central University<\/em><\/p>\n

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In African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation<\/em>, author Marco Polo Hern\u00e1ndez-Cuevas explores how the Africaness of Mexican mestizaje<\/em><\/a> was erased from the national memory and identity and how national African ethnic contributions were plagiarized by the criollo<\/a> elite in modern Mexico. The book cites the concept of a Caucasian standard of beauty prevalent in narrative, film, and popular culture in the period between 1920 and 1968, which the author dubs as the “cultural phase of the Mexican Revolution<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The author also delves into how criollo<\/em> elite disenfranchised non-white Mexicans as a whole by institutionalizing a Eurocentric myth whereby Mexicans learned to negate part of their ethnic makeup. During this time period, wherever African Mexicans, visibly black or not, are mentioned, they appear as “mestizo<\/a>,” many of them oblivious of their African heritage, and others part of a willing movement toward becoming “white.” This analysis adopts as a critical foundation Richard Jackson’s ideas about black phobia and the white aesthetic, as well as James Snead’s coding of blacks.<\/p>\n

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