{"id":58531,"date":"2019-07-18T20:36:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T20:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58531"},"modified":"2019-07-18T20:36:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T20:36:03","slug":"indian-allies-and-white-antagonists-toward-an-alternative-mestizaje-on-mexicos-costa-chica-latin-american-and-caribbean-ethnic-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58531","title":{"rendered":"Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico\u2019s Costa Chica Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17442222.2015.1094873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative <\/strong><\/em><strong>mestizaje <\/strong><em><strong>on Mexico\u2019s Costa Chica<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rlac20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rlac20\/11\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 11, 2016 &#8211; Issue 3: Mestizo Acts: The Politics and Performance of Mestizaje in Guatemala, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia<\/a><br \/>\npages 222-241<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17442222.2015.1094873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/17442222.2015.1094873<\/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>San Nicol\u00e1s Tolentino, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guerrero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guerrero, Mexico<\/a>, is a \u2018mixed\u2019 black-Indian agricultural community on the coastal belt of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico\u2019s<\/a> southern Pacific coast, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Costa_Chica_of_Guerrero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Costa Chica<\/a>. This article examines local expressions of race in San Nicol\u00e1s in relation to Mexico\u2019s national ideology of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>mestizaje<\/em><\/a> (race mixing), which excludes blackness but is foundational to Mexican racial identities. San Nicol\u00e1s\u2019s black-Indians are strongly nationalistic while expressing a collective or regional identity different from those of peoples they identify as Indians and as whites. Such collective expression produces an alternative model of <em>mestizaje<\/em>, here explored through local agrarian history and several village festivals. It is argued that this alternative model favors Indians and distances whites, thereby challenging dominant forms of Mexican <em>mestizaje<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17442222.2015.1094873?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article examines local expressions of race in San Nicol\u00e1s in relation to Mexico\u2019s national ideology of mestizaje (race mixing), which excludes blackness but is foundational to Mexican racial identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,8,103,3015],"tags":[23448,1039,8470,2278,10101],"class_list":["post-58531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-native-americans","tag-guerrero","tag-latin-american-and-caribbean-ethnic-studies","tag-laura-a-lewis","tag-laura-lewis","tag-san-nicolas-tolentino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58531","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=58531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58532,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58531\/revisions\/58532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}