Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico's Costa Chica
Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico's Costa Chica
San Nicolás Tolentino, Guerrero, Mexico, is a ‘mixed’ black-Indian agricultural community on the coastal belt of Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, the Costa Chica. This article examines local expressions of race in San Nicolás in relation to Mexico’s national ideology of mestizaje (race mixing), which excludes blackness but is foundational to Mexican racial identities. San Nicolás’s 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 mestizaje, 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 mestizaje
afro-mexicans, mestizaje, race, costa chica, mexico
222-241
Lewis, Laura
3b8fef98-e0ff-4acf-879f-ed9b1c318890
September 2016
Lewis, Laura
3b8fef98-e0ff-4acf-879f-ed9b1c318890
Lewis, Laura
(2016)
Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico's Costa Chica.
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 11 (3), .
(doi:10.1080/17442222.2015.1094873).
Abstract
San Nicolás Tolentino, Guerrero, Mexico, is a ‘mixed’ black-Indian agricultural community on the coastal belt of Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, the Costa Chica. This article examines local expressions of race in San Nicolás in relation to Mexico’s national ideology of mestizaje (race mixing), which excludes blackness but is foundational to Mexican racial identities. San Nicolás’s 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 mestizaje, 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 mestizaje
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e-pub ahead of print date: 5 October 2015
Published date: September 2016
Keywords:
afro-mexicans, mestizaje, race, costa chica, mexico
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Modern Languages and Linguistics
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/384329
ISSN: 1744-2222
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