How the idea of national race evolved in Mexico? by https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966 From National Race to Mestijaze. en-us 2021-03-03 13:41:36 UTC 2021-03-24 15:43:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Was the idea of national race -which arose from the practice of dividing the Mexican people into multiple, picturesque, races and castes - really unique? osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263674479 Two factors distinguish the Mexican race from the other races:]]> 2021-03-03 13:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263674479 Factor 1: osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263748786 The Mexican race rarely proposes itself as a superior race, but rather as a race ideally suited to the specific environment of Mexico ]]> 2021-03-03 14:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263748786 Factor 2: osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263762821 The representation of Mexicans as a race is deeply rooted in the popular imagination. 
For example: In Northern Mexico and United States: 'raza' or 'race' meant 'us', same goes in Portuguese as ' a gentle' but in Brazil, another American country,  known for its 'mestizophilia' 'Brazilian race' has tended to be identified as a project for the future but not an empirical reality. 
]]> 2021-03-03 14:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263762821 However in the in early twentieth-century Mexico, the nation became identified with a race in a relatively extensive (and perhaps generalized)way. How and Why did this occur? osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263867939 Three factors have advanced the idea of Mestizaje(miscegenation) and its transformation to National Race:]]> 2021-03-03 14:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263867939 Factor 1: Government’s public policies osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263889660 When a political regime fails to achieve effective citizenship based on equality before the law, it uses race or origin to define the citizen and thus form it as the national subject. ]]> 2021-03-03 14:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263889660 Factor 2: Economic Dynamism osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263961215 Economic developments broke down categories of identity and created a basis for new identities that, while different from the original ones, still retained a racial discourse. This process began in the colonial period and was enormously important in Mexico, in part because the principal mining centers, in contrast to those in Peru, were far from the centers of the indigenous population. ]]> 2021-03-03 14:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1263961215 This led to.. osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264202940 The accelerated pace of building the Mexican train network, as well as large-scale capital investments in mining, textiles, petroleum, and agriculture, resulting in waves of migration, both within Mexico and to the United States, by the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Because the identities that are now called indigenous were almost entirely based on location at the time, these migrations contributed to the phenomenon of mestizaje. ]]> 2021-03-03 15:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264202940 Why did people come to identify the new mestizaje with national identity? Factor 3: osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264223450 The racialization of the Mexican as a product of the logic of the border between Mexico and the United States ]]> 2021-03-03 15:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264223450 osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264336048 Mexican racialization in the United States was a result of a policy of Mexican integration into an ethnically segmented labor market (which predominated in Texas), as well as a white strategy of political marginalization (especially relevant in the territory of New Mexico). In the United States, the Mexican was the first to be classified as a single race.]]> 2021-03-03 15:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264336048 Social and psychological consequences of the quickly developing, and instability of the Mexican national identity, led to conflicting internalizations of who is valuable, especially in reference to the United States. https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264667944 2021-03-03 16:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264667944 The border between Mexico and United States became a threshold between languages, currencies, relationships, peoples, and even times. osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264670062 2021-03-03 16:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264670062 A dramatic illustration of the border as a threshold in the Porfirian era can be found in the life of Teresa Urrea osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264684787 Teresa even appeared in Barnum’s famous theater in New York. When Teresa, a messianic and politically dangerous figure, crossed the border, she turned into a freak-show attraction. Teresa would attract Mexican pilgrims to Arizona, seeking her miraculous cures. Teresa was good business in the United States  ]]> 2021-03-03 16:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264684787 Transformation in Mexico: osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264704268 The movement of people between Mexico and the United States produced radical transformations on each side, but what the Mexican nationalists wanted, and what the government of Mexico also may have wanted, was for the nations to be more symmetrical. Mexican nationalists wanted the North Americans who went to Mexico to submit to the Mexican regime in the same way that Mexicans had submitted to the North American regime.]]> 2021-03-03 16:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264704268 osp201 https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264771665 The time has come to move away from an idea of race whose definition derives from a first line of defense and toward proposals that are more ambitious and free. ]]> 2021-03-03 16:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/osp201/8vmbae0j0qo74966/wish/1264771665