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Chino

Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940
  • ISBN-13: 9780252040863
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Jason Oliver Chang
  • Price: AUD $239.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2017
  • Format: Hardback 278 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
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From the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, antichinismo --the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans--found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state, and the elite in control, of it build their nation. As Chang shows, anti-Chinese politics shared intimate bonds with a romantic ideology that surrounded the transformation of the mass indigenous peasantry into dignified mestizos. Racializing a Chinese Other became instrumental in organizing the political power and resources for winning Mexico's revolutionary war, building state power, and seizing national hegemony in order to dominate the majority Indian population. By centering the Chinese in the drama of Mexican history, Chang opens up a fascinating untold story about the ways antichinismo was embedded within Mexico's revolutionary national state and its ideologies. Groundbreaking and boldly argued, Chino is a first-of-its-kind look at the essential role the Chinese played in Mexican culture and politics.
"Jason Chang's proposition that Mexican national identity is created on the back of images and discourses of the Chinese is well-argued and creatively researched. His novel 'new mestizo studies' situates ideas about race, ethnicity, and in-betweenness within the broader Americas and thus is a critical text for multiple fields of inquiry."--Jeffrey Lesser, author of Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present

"Chino is a highly accessible and engaging discussion of a little-known aspect of Mexican history." --Ethnic and Racial Studies
 
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