| HR-50179-05 | Research Programs: Faculty Research Awards | Gerardo Renique | Popular Culture, State Formation, and Anti-Chinese Racism in the Making of Post-Revolutionary Mexico | 1/1/2006 - 6/30/2006 | $24,000.00 | Gerardo | | Renique | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, City College | New York | NY | 10031-9101 | USA | 2004 | Latin American History | Faculty Research Awards | Research Programs | 24000 | 0 | 24000 | 0 |
The proposed project is to complete a book-manuscript on Mexico’s anti-Chinese campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s. My book focuses on the relationship of this movement to the racial understandings and nationalist projects of Mexico’s post-revolutionary state formation and nation building. I analyze the relationship between these campaigns and both popular and official mestizaje. I look both at the neglected place of Asian and Orientalist tropes in theories of mestizaje; the relationship between anti-Chinese sentiments and mestizaje and indigenismo; and the use of the anti-Chinese campaigns to advance the mechanisms of social control through mass mobilization that constituted the trade-mark of Mexico’s post-revolutionary state. |