{"id":8555,"date":"2010-08-28T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T19:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8555"},"modified":"2015-09-02T21:35:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T21:35:39","slug":"la-china-poblana-and-other-constructions-of-asian-latinosas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8555","title":{"rendered":"La China Poblana and Other Constructions of Asian Latinos\/as"},"content":{"rendered":"

La China Poblana and Other Constructions of Asian Latinos\/as<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Clave: Counterdisciplinary Notes on Race, Power & the State<\/a>
\nA Project of LatCrit Inc. and Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico
\nSummer 2006<\/a>
\n22 pages<\/p>\n

Evelyn Hu-DeHart<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
\nBrown University<\/em><\/p>\n

She is the same image that moves and captivates us in all the national celebrations, the same one who in foreign lands has inspired waves of enthusiasm, the same one who has made tears of intense emotion stream from our eyes, seeing her in North America or in Europe in festivals or in theaters marvelously execute the steps to the jarabe tapat\u00edo<\/a><\/em> [Mexican Hat Dance] in her silk slippers conclude by finishing her typical dance with the ingenious steps of \u201cEl Palomo,\u201d<\/em> under the proud wing of the braid-trimmed sombrero of her charro<\/em> [her male counterpart].<\/p>\n

She is la china poblana<\/a><\/em> (the Chinese woman of Puebla), \u201cthe national archtype for Mexican women,\u201d a legend whose creation began in the twilight years of the nineteenth entury, accelerated during the 1920s in the immediate aftermath of the Mexican Revolution<\/a>, quickly became institutionalized and even memorialized by a national monument in 1941. She is now widely recognized throughout Mexico<\/a> and wherever Mexican people and commerce have ventured in the diaspora. How the national emblem of Mexican womanhood was linked to a china<\/em> (read Chinese woman for now) is a question that begs to be asked. And when asked, most Mexicans can summon something about an Oriental princess who embroidered and wore the colorful blouses worn by their iconic symbol. Few seem aware, however, that the legend can be traced back to a seventeenth century immigrant\/exile\/expatriate (she could fit any of these categories of \u201coutsider\u201d) from Asia, a unique flesh-and-bone historical personality known as Catarina de San Juan<\/a>. Although this figure from Asia had lived in New Spain<\/a> during the early colonial period, and centuries later informed the construction of Mexico\u2019s post-Revolutionary female national symbol, her place in the Mexican imagination has not led to general recognition of the Asian Latina as a cultural or social formation in Mexico. We shall return to this story and explain this strange paradox…<\/p>\n

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La China Poblana and Other Constructions of Asian Latinos\/as Clave: Counterdisciplinary Notes on Race, Power & the State A Project of LatCrit Inc. and Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico Summer 2006 22 pages Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,16,21,14646,8,103],"tags":[221,3624,20753],"class_list":["post-8555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-asia","category-latincarib","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-china","tag-evelyn-hu-dehart","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555","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=8555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42525,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions\/42525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}