ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Manuel Gamio, Indigenismo, New Spain
26 Sep 2018
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Whitening the population & scientific racism & la raza cosmica and. Indigenismo in mexico: nation-building & the dilemma of race. 1. 2 the race problem of latin american nation-building. Emerging & gave distinction to national population. 1. 3 two broad solutions developed by ruling elites (1) whitewashing (a) elimination (b) massive european immigration. (2) celebrating mixed origins. As a source of national originality and pride. Inferior races could be perfected (for latin americans: two solutions related. Celebration of mixing appears inclusive but based process of whitening. => eventual erasure of blackness and indianness from the nation. => thus, mestizaje does not define a morally neutral convergence of the three races. It is means to wipe out two of the three: typology of race and nation, colonial period. - biological and social inferiority: nationalist period (c19 and 20) - consolidation of mestizaje and racial democracy ideal. - celebration of african and indian components of national culture: peru, mexico raza c smica, indigenismo.
