Y tú ¿qué hora traes? : Unpacking the Privileges of Dominant Groups in México / Ana C. Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

C., Lopez, Ana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexico--History.

Mexico.

Mexico--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (108 pages)

Other Title:

Unpacking the Privileges of Dominant Groups in México

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : Brill | Sense, 2020.

Summary:

This book is a collection of essays and anecdotes in which the author recounts some of her lived experiences. She shares these anecdotes to unpack her privilege while exposing the toxicity of privileged groups in Mexican society; the documented, wealthy, middle-class, white, white-passing, bilingual, non-Black, non-Indigenous, educated, catholic, heterosexual, cisgender, and able-bodied. While talking about herself, her family, and the education system as she experienced it, the author talks about her process of unlearning ingrained nocive values such as colorblindness, ethnocentrism, and toxic nationalism. Also touched upon are some of the nocive behaviors and rhetoric that privileged Mexicans (in Mexico) carry with themselves because of their failure to challenge the multiple systems of oppression that they benefit from. Y tú ¿qué hora traes? represents but a tiny fraction of the problems, power structures and social injustices that remain unchallenged in Mexico. It is the author’s hope to continue to grow her understanding of the issues that are presented here and to continue working from a self-reflective perspective.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Positionality and Social Class

A Catholicism I Know

Imposed Gendered Roles

Racism in Mexico: Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente

Ableism

Towards a New Light

Back Matter

References.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-41953-5

OCLC:

1125109461

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004419537 DOI