La Raza Cosmética: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico

by Natasha Varner

Book Overview

In the decades following the Mexican Revolution, nation builders, artists, and intellectuals manufactured ideologies that continue to give shape to popular understandings of indigeneity and mestizaje today. Postrevolutionary identity tropes emerged as part of broader efforts to reunify the nation and solve pressing social concerns, including what was posited in the racist rhetoric of the time as the "Indian problem." Through a complex alchemy of appropriation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816537151
• ISBN13: 9780816537150
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"