Assimilating the Primitive : Parallel Dialogues on Racial Miscegenation in Revolutionary Mexico
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Latin America Interdisciplinary Studies
ISBN-10
0820463221
ISBN-13
9780820463223
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 26th, 2004
Print length
179 Pages
Weight
400 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.60 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Classical texts
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This book examines the Mexican nationalist rhetoric that promoted race mixing as a cultural ideal, placing it within its broader contemporary polemic between vitalist and scientific thought. Part of its analysis compares the attitudes of anthropologist Manuel Gamio and educator José Vasconcelos with those of the European primitivist D. H. Lawrence, and concludes that although Gamio and Vasconcelos made lasting contributions to the construction of popular notions of mexicanidad, their paradigms were fatally flawed because they followed European prescriptions for the development of national identity. This ultimately reinforced the belief that indigenous cultural expression must be assimilated into the dominant mestizo culture in order for Mexico to progress. Consequently, these thinkers were unsuccessful in resolving the cultural dilemma Mexico suffered in the years immediately following the Revolution.
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