Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico - Paperback

by Christina A. Sue (Author)

Land of the Cosmic Race is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a previously untold story of how individuals in contemporary urban Mexico construct their identities, attitudes, and practices in the context of a dominant national belief system. The book centers around Mexicans' engagement with three racialized pillars of Mexican national ideology - the promotion of race mixture, the assertion of an absence of racism in the country, and the marginalization of blackness in Mexico.

Author Biography

Christina A. Sue is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.