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Riot and Rebellion in Mexico: The Making of a Race War Paradigm

Riot and Rebellion in Mexico: The Making of a Race War Paradigm

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Mexican History

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ISBN10: 1477330798
ISBN13: 9781477330791
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Feb 15 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

2023 Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section

Challenging conventional narratives of Mexican history, this book establishes race-making as a central instrument for the repression of social upheaval in nineteenth-century Mexico rather than a relic of the colonial-era caste system.

Many scholars assert that Mexico's complex racial hierarchy, inherited from Spanish colonialism, became obsolete by the turn of the nineteenth century as class-based distinctions became more prominent and a largely mestizo population emerged. But the residues of the colonial caste system did not simply dissolve after Mexico gained independence. Rather, Ana Sabau argues, ever-present fears of racial uprising among elites and authorities led to persistent governmental techniques and ideologies designed to separate and control people based on their perceived racial status, as well as to the implementation of projects for development in fringe areas of the country.

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