{"id":41953,"date":"2015-07-26T02:42:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T02:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41953"},"modified":"2015-07-26T02:42:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T02:42:21","slug":"we-are-not-racists-we-are-mexicans-privilege-nationalism-and-post-race-ideology-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41953","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans\u201d: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0896920515591296\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWe Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans\u201d: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crs.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Sociology<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online before print 2015-06-18<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0896920515591296\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0896920515591296<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.cam.ac.uk\/people\/academic-staff\/mmfigueroa\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00f3nica G. Moreno Figueroa<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Cambridge, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anth.ucsb.edu\/people\/emiko-saldivar\" target=\"_blank\">Emiko Sald\u00edvar<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Project Scientist<br \/>\nDepartment of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article analyses the conflicting understandings surrounding the recognition of anti-black racism in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>, drawing from an analysis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/8410111\/ns\/world_news-americas\/t\/us-mexican-stamp-fuels-racial-stereotypes\/\" target=\"_blank\">2005 controversy<\/a> around <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mem%C3%ADn_Pingu%C3%ADn\" target=\"_blank\">Mem\u00edn Pingu\u00edn<\/a>. We ask what is at stake when opposition arises to claims of racism, how racial disavowal is possible, and how is it that the racial project of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\">mestizaje<\/a> (racial and cultural mixture) expresses a form of Mexican post-racial ideology. We argue that the ideology of mestizaje is key for unpacking the tensions between the recognition and disavowal of racism. Mestizaje solidifies into a form of nationalist denial in moments when racism is openly contested or brought up. It becomes a concrete strategy of power that is mobilized to simplify or divert attention in particular moments, such as with the Mem\u00edn Pingu\u00edn controversy, when the contradictions within the social dynamic are revealed and questioned. Here is where Mexico\u2019s \u201craceless\u201d ideology of mestizaje overlaps with current post-racial politics. We explore state, elite and popular reactions to the debate to discuss how such public displays reflect an invested denial of race and racism while, at the same time, the racial status quo of mestizaje is reinforced. This, we argue, is the essence of post-racial politics in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/crs.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2015\/06\/09\/0896920515591296.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans\u201d: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico Critical Sociology Published online before print 2015-06-18 DOI: 10.1177\/0896920515591296 M\u00f3nica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Emiko Sald\u00edvar, Associate Project Scientist Department of Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara This article analyses the conflicting understandings surrounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,8,103,394],"tags":[736,20520,20519,3584,2628],"class_list":["post-41953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-socialscience","tag-critical-sociology","tag-emiko-saldivar","tag-memin-pinguin","tag-monica-g-moreno-figueroa","tag-monica-moreno-figueroa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953","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=41953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41954,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953\/revisions\/41954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}