Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico - Rilegato

Dawson, Alexander S.

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ISBN 10: 0816523452 ISBN 13: 9780816523450

Casa editrice: Univ of Arizona Pr, 2004

Riassunto

During the 1920s and 1930s in Mexico, both intellectuals and government officials promoted ethnic diversity while attempting to overcome the stigma of race in Mexican society. Programs such as the Indigenista movement represented their efforts to redeem the Revolution's promise of a more democratic future for all citizens. This book explores three decades of efforts on the part of government officials, social scientists, and indigenous leaders to renegotiate the place of native peoples in Mexican society. It traces the movement's origins as a humanitarian cause among intellectuals, the involvement of government in bringing education, land reform, cultural revival, and social research to Indian communities, and the active participation of Indian peoples.

Traditionally, scholars have seen Indigenismo as an elitist formulation of the "Indian problem." Dawson instead explores the ways that the movement was mediated by both elite and popular pressures over time. By showing how Indigenismo was used by a variety of actors to negotiate the shape of the revolutionary state—from anthropologist Manual Gamio to President Lįzaro Cįrdenas—he demonstrates how it contributed to a new "pact of domination" between indigenous peoples and the government.

Although the power of the Indigenistas was limited by the face that "Indian" remained a racial slur in Mexico, the indķgenas capacitados empowered through Indigenismo played a central role in ensuring seventy years of PRI hegemony. In studying the confluence of state formation, social science, and native activism, Dawson's book offers a new perspective for understanding the processes through which revolutionary hegemony emerged.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alexander S. Dawson is Assistant Professor of History at Simon Fraser University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Arizona Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0816523452
• ISBN 13: 9780816523450
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 222