Abstract
This essay reviews the following works: Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880–1940. By Jason Oliver Chang. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Pp. xiv + 257. $28.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780252082344. Paisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico. By Fredy Gonzalez. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 277. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520290204. Camaradas: Nueva historia del comunismo en Mexico. Edited by Carlos Illades. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2017. Pp. 375. $18.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9786077457251. Seen and Heard in Mexico: Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism. By Elena Jackson Albarran. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Pp. 414. $35.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780803265349. The Blood Contingent: The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876–1911. By Stephen B. Neufeld. Albuquerque: University of Mexico Press, 2017. Pp. vii + 400. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826358059. A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico. By Pablo Piccato. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. Pp. xi + 374. $34.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520292628. The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico. By Stephanie J. Smith. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 275. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781469635682.
Highlights
Paisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico
From the late colonial period to the present, Mexican intellectuals have widely debated the meanings of Mexican modernity
Rethinking Mexican Modernity: Nation-State Formation, Politics, and the Longue Durée
Summary
Rethinking Mexican Modernity: Nation-State Formation, Politics, and the Longue Durée. Hernández: Rethinking Mexican Modernity that prescription by arguing for a longue durée approach to nation-state formation that centers race and gender in relation to political violence. While the PRC styled itself as the vanguard of the “Third World,” the ROC’s attaché threatened to report the diaspora’s “communist sympathizers” to Mexico’s secret police Through his impressive study of new primary sources, González reconceptualizes our understandings of the Chinese diaspora in Mexico by centering their engagement with transnational politics. Piccato begins with an important recognition: “Like any other history book, this one tries to understand the present” (1) As he demonstrates in A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico, the origins of the narco-security state and its complicity with organized crime and gender-based violence lay in the structures of the postrevolutionary regime. Has the “Pax Priísta” or its inheritor, the “Pax Príanista” under presidents Vicente Fox (2000–2006) and Felipe Calderón (2006–2012), drifted off? How has nation-state formation in Mexico changed in light of the neoliberal turn of the late 1980s and the more recent resurgence of the global right? It is too early to make any definitive predictions, but one conclusion is clear: Mexico’s ongoing “democratization” has been more violent than many scholars previously believed. One may even argue that Mexico’s alleged democratic opening after 1978 has merely created more channels for narco dollars, further underscoring the challenges of nation-state formation
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