{"product_id":"land-of-the-cosmic-race-christina-a-sue-9780199925506","title":"Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico","description":"\u003cem\u003eLand of the Cosmic Race\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a previously untold story of how individuals in contemporary urban Mexico construct their identities, attitudes, and practices in the context of a dominant national belief system. The book centers around Mexicans' engagement with three racialized pillars of Mexican national ideology - the promotion of race mixture, the assertion of an absence of racism in the country, and the marginalization of blackness in Mexico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe subjects of this book are mestizos - the mixed-race people of Mexico who are of Indigenous, African, and European ancestry and the intended consumers of this national ideology. \u003cem\u003eLand of the Cosmic Race\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates how Mexican mestizos navigate the sea of contradictions that arise when their everyday lived experiences conflict with the national stance and how they manage these paradoxes in a way that upholds, protects, and reproduces the national ideology. Drawing on a year of participant observation, over 110 interviews, and focus-groups from Veracruz, Mexico, Christina A. Sue offers rich insight into the relationship between race-based national ideology and the attitudes and behaviors of mixed-race Mexicans. Most importantly, she theorizes as to why elite-based ideology not only survives but actually thrives within the popular understandings and discourse of those over whom it is designed to govern. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christina A. Sue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019992550X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199925506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Christina A. Sue","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119449075967,"sku":"9780199925506","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7ef1bea6-42f8-4903-ad8a-2fd22b7d8744.jpg?v=1687409412","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/land-of-the-cosmic-race-christina-a-sue-9780199925506","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}