{"product_id":"mestizo-state-joshua-lund-9780816656370","title":"Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mestizo State\u003c\/i\u003e examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, Joshua Lund investigates the rise of a racialized \"mestizo state,\" its reinvention after the Mexican Revolution, and its mobilization as a critical lever that would act both on behalf of and against mainstream Mexican political culture during the long hegemony of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLund takes race as his object of critical reflection in the context of modern Mexico. An analysis that does not confuse race with mestizaje, indigeneity, African identity, or whiteness, the book sheds light on the history of the materialism of race as it unfolds within the cultural production of modern Mexico, grounded on close readings of four writers whose work explicitly challenged the politics of race in Mexico: Luis Alva, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Rosario Castellanos, and Elena Garro. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn seeking to address race as a cultural-political problematic, Lund considers race as integral to the production of the materiality of Mexican national history: constitutive of the nation form, a mediator of capitalist accumulation, and a central actor in the rise of modernity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Lund\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816656371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816656370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Joshua Lund","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072818376959,"sku":"9780816656370","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9c4070b-40c5-4cd2-b542-7efcb93449b4.jpg?v=1685444108","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mestizo-state-joshua-lund-9780816656370","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}