{"id":63226,"date":"2022-02-23T19:59:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T19:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63226"},"modified":"2022-02-23T19:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T19:59:49","slug":"mestizo-modernity-race-technology-and-the-body-in-the-postrevolutionary-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63226","title":{"rendered":"Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in the Postrevolutionary Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in the Postrevolutionary Mexico<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University Press of Florida<\/a>
\n2018-08-28
\n250 pages
\n6×9
\nHardcover ISBN 13: 9781683400394
\nPaper ISBN 13: 9781683403104<\/p>\n

David S. Dalton<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Spanish
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Charlotte<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

After the end of the Mexican Revolution<\/a> in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country\u2019s racially diverse population into one official mixed-race identity\u2014the mestizo<\/a>. This book shows that as part of this vision, the Mexican government believed it could modernize \u201cprimitive\u201d Indigenous peoples through technology in the form of education, modern medicine, industrial agriculture, and factory work. David Dalton takes a close look at how authors, artists, and thinkers\u2014some state-funded, some independent\u2014engaged with official views of Mexican racial identity from the 1920s to the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Dalton surveys essays, plays, novels, murals, and films that portray indigenous bodies being fused, or hybridized, with technology. He examines Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos\u2019s<\/a> essay \u201cThe Cosmic Race<\/a>\u201d and the influence of its ideologies on mural artists such as Diego Rivera<\/a> and Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco<\/a>. He discusses the theme of introducing Amerindians<\/a> to medical hygiene and immunizations in the films of Emilio \u201cEl Indio\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez<\/a>. He analyzes the portrayal of indigenous monsters in the films of El Santo, as well as Carlos Olvera\u2019s critique of postrevolutionary worldviews in the novel Mejicanos en el espacio<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Incorporating the perspectives of posthumanism<\/a> and cyborg studies<\/a>, Dalton shows that technology played a key role in race formation in Mexico throughout the twentieth century. This cutting-edge study offers fascinating new insights into the culture of mestizaje<\/em><\/a>, illuminating the attitudes that inform Mexican race relations in the present day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in the Postrevolutionary Mexico University Press of Florida 2018-08-28 250 pages 6×9 Hardcover ISBN 13: 9781683400394 Paper ISBN 13: 9781683403104 David S. Dalton, Assistant Professor of Spanish University of North Carolina, Charlotte After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,459,1196,8,103,17],"tags":[33126,33125,1621,16422,33128,33127,1868,5799],"class_list":["post-63226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-monographs","tag-david-dalton","tag-david-s-dalton","tag-diego-rivera","tag-emilio-fernandez","tag-emilio-el-indio-fernandez-2","tag-jose-clemente-orozco","tag-jose-vasconcelos","tag-university-press-of-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63226","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=63226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63227,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63226\/revisions\/63227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}