Race and the Mexican Question
The objective of this project is to investigate how anti-Mexican racial discourse is different from anti-black racial language. The literature detailing color-blind racism is linked by the consensus that anti-black sentiments have evolved from being explicit and crude to coded and covert. This analysis is persuaded by this contention but finds that it loses explanatory power when one considers the articulation of anti-Mexican opinions. A review of on-line commentaries from a number of mainstream California newspapers supports this position. These commentaries, largely in response to a range of public policy issues, illustrate how anti-Mexican viewpoints are not only overt and unambiguous - in stark contrast to the central tenets of color-blind racism - but characterized by the reoccurring dehumanization of people of Mexican descent. The reasons for this divergence, I contend, can be found in the continual ambiguity regarding Mexican racial identity and the perpetual questions regarding their sense of national belonging
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2010
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Authors: | Durazo, Marco |
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[2010]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Mexiko | Mexico | Rasse | Race | Ethnische Diskriminierung | Ethnic discrimination | Ethnische Gruppe | Ethnic group | Schwarze Menschen | Black people |
Description of contents: | Abstract [papers.ssrn.com] |
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