Politics Of Race In Mexico Research Articles

Karin AlejandraRosemblattThe science and politics of race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 272 pp. $29.95 (pbk), $90.00 (hbk).

Karin AlejandraRosemblattThe science and politics of race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 272 pp. $29.95 (pbk), $90.00 (hbk).

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), pp. xiii + 255, £29.95, pb.

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), pp. xiii + 255, £29.95, pb. - Volume 52 Issue 2

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, <i>The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950</i>

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950 by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950 by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States ‐ by Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra

Bulletin of Latin American ResearchVolume 38, Issue 5 p. 682-684 Book Review The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States - by Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra Steven J. Bachelor, Steven J. Bachelor Milton AcademySearch for more papers by this author Steven J. Bachelor, Steven J. Bachelor Milton AcademySearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 November 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13060Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume38, Issue5November 2019Pages 682-684 RelatedInformation

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950.

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950.

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, <i>The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950</i>

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt's book is a fascinating study of racial thinking and policy making in the United States and Mexico during the early twentieth century. It offers a detailed intellectual history of how scholars from both sides of the border—primarily anthropologists, including Franz Boas, John Collier, Manuel Gamio, Oscar Lewis, Lucio Mendieta y Núñez, Moisés Sáenz, Laura Thompson, and many others—collaborated, influenced, and sometimes passionately debated one another over the meanings of complex subjects such as racial difference, eugenics, evolution, cultural hierarchies, and the entanglement of race and class in the processes of modernization and assimilation. Rosemblatt focuses overwhelmingly on these subjects in relation to Native Americans, Mexico's indigenous peoples, and the category of indigeneity broadly. Intriguingly, though, she also gestures at how U.S. and Mexican categorization and governance of indigenous peoples also shaped how they thought about, and crafted policy for, other racialized groups, including mixed-race individuals, African Americans, and Japanese people. It should be read widely by anyone interested in the intertwined histories of the United States and Mexico.

Race in Mexico and the United States - The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950. By Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 272. Halftones. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Race in Mexico and the United States - The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950. By Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 272. Halftones. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 29.95 paper. - Volume 76 Issue 1

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950. By Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

This book is a unique addition to the history of American states’ ardent attempts to cope with their multicultural societies during the first five decades of the twentieth century. Rosemblatt, an established scholar of race and gender in Latin America, has produced a remarkable study of the U.S. and Mexico at a time when social sciences in both countries were growing, and state agencies in both nations made attempts to manage and aid vulnerable populations. Skillfully weaving the history of social science ideas and state policies aimed at indigenous people in early twentieth-century Mexico and the U.S., the author transcends comparison and provides a truly transnational study. Rosemblatt’s goal is to study the efforts of social scientists “who worked with state officials to understand how to manage racial difference within and across nations” (3). The book has three sets of arguments, one for each nation and then a third about the relationship between the two. The author finds important distinctions between the two countries’ intellectual perspectives and policy outcomes, even as scientific communities in each nation freely shared ideas. For example, in the U.S., the overarching goal was “sensitive” acculturation of indigenous people in the context of the overarching assumption that indigenous cultural expressions would “disappear” once no longer functional. Mexican scientists’ energies, on the other hand, were largely devoted to documenting in great detail the cultural diversity in their nation, and they resisted generalizing theories. Finally, Rosemblatt convincingly demonstrates that Mexican scholarship influenced U.S. social science—in spite of the fact that scientists in both countries acknowledged the imbalance of power between the two.

Dreaming of a cosmic race: José Vasconcelos and the politics of race in Mexico, 1920s–1930s

This paper examines the role of Mexican philosopher, Jose Vasconcelos, in consolidating mestizaje (racial and cultural mixture) as the national ideology through a textual analysis of his essay, “La...