Riot and rebellion in Mexico : the making of a race war paradigm / Ana Sabau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sabau, Ana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurgency--Political aspects--Mexico--History.

Insurgency.

Equality--Mexico--Philosophy--History.

Equality.

Elite (Social sciences)--Mexico--Attitudes--History.

Elite (Social sciences).

Mexico--Race relations--Political aspects--History.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages)

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, [2022]

Summary:

Many scholars assert that Mexico’s complex racial hierarchy, inherited from Spanish colonialism, became obsolete by the turn of the nineteenth century as class-based distinctions became more prominent and a largely mestizo population emerged. But the residues of the colonial caste system did not simply dissolve after Mexico gained independence. Rather, Ana Sabau argues, ever-present fears of racial uprising among elites and authorities led to persistent governmental techniques and ideologies designed to separate and control people based on their perceived racial status, as well as to the implementation of projects for development in fringe areas of the country. Riot and Rebellion in Mexico traces this race-based narrative through three historical flashpoints: the Bajío riots, the Haitian Revolution, and the Yucatan’s caste war. Sabau shows how rebellions were treated as racially motivated events rather than political acts and how the racialization of popular and indigenous sectors coincided with the construction of “whiteness” in Mexico. Drawing on diverse primary sources, Sabau demonstrates how the race war paradigm was mobilized in foreign and domestic affairs and reveals the foundations of a racial state and racially stratified society that persist today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. The Bajío

Chapter One. Vanishing Indianness: Pacifi cation and the Production of Race in the 1767 Bajío Riots

Chapter Two. “So That They May Be Free of All Those Things”: Theorizing Collective Action in the Bajío Riots

Coda One. From the Country to the City: Movement, Labor, and Race at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Part II. Haiti

Chapter Three. The Domino Affect: Haiti, New Spain, and the Racial Pedagogy of Distance

Chapter Four. Staging Fear and Freedom: Haiti’s Shifting Proximities at the Time of Mexican Independence

Coda Two. Haiti in Mexico’s Early Republican Context

Part III. Yucatán

Chapter Five. On Criminality, Race, and Labor: Indenture and the Caste War

Chapter Six. The Shapes of a Desert: The Racial Cartographies of the Caste War

Coda Three. “Barbarous Mexico”: Racialized Coercive Labor from Sonora to Yucatán

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-2423-2

OCLC:

1286367037