Chino : anti-Chinese racism in Mexico, 1880-1940
Asians Race relations Mexico History
University of Illinois Press
2017
EISBN 9780252099359
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Finding Mexico's Chinese, Encountering the Mestizo State; 1. The Politics of Chinese Immigration in the Era of Mexican National Colonization; 2. Motores de Sangre: They Do Not Think, or Assimilate, or Master; 3. Violent Imaginaries and the Beginnings of a New State; 4. Abajo Los Chinos: The Political Invention of Mestizo Nationalism; 5. Forging a Racial Contract; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
From the late 19th century to the 1930s, antichinismo - the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans - found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state, and the elite in control, of it build their nation. As Chang shows, anti-Chinese politics shared intimate bonds with a romantic ideology that surrounded the transformation of the mass indigenous peasantry into dignified mestizos.
From the late 19th century to the 1930s, antichinismo - the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans - found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state, and the elite in control, of it build their nation. As Chang shows, anti-Chinese politics shared intimate bonds with a romantic ideology that surrounded the transformation of the mass indigenous peasantry into dignified mestizos.
