{"id":58529,"date":"2019-07-17T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58529"},"modified":"2019-07-17T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:50:08","slug":"that-little-mexican-part-of-me-race-place-and-transnationalism-among-u-s-african-descent-mexicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58529","title":{"rendered":"That little Mexican part of me: race, place and transnationalism among U.S. African-descent Mexicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2019.1626016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>That little Mexican part of me: race, place and transnationalism among U.S. African-descent Mexicans<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online: 2019-06-05<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2019.1626016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/01419870.2019.1626016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/humanities\/about\/staff\/ll15g12.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Laura A. Lewis<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Anthropology in Modern Languages and Linguistics<br \/>\n<em>University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article uses semi-structured interviews and participant observation to examine transnationalism and notions of race among first- and second-generation young adult Afro-descended Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>. I suggest that transnationally inflected understandings of race encourage both generations to privilege place-based over ancestry-based racial identities. For the first generation, which is mostly undocumented, place is part of their socialization as Mexicans and a way to forge a more secure sense of belonging in the United States. For members of the second generation, place resolves their position as an anomalous \u201crace\u201d not recognized in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2019.1626016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article uses semi-structured interviews and participant observation to examine transnationalism and notions of race among first- and second-generation young adult Afro-descended Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[461,8470,2278],"class_list":["post-58529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-laura-a-lewis","tag-laura-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58529","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=58529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58530,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58529\/revisions\/58530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}