This article examines the impact of Mexican eugenics on different programs relating to the family throughout the post-Revolutionary period. It deals with how Mexican elites thought about the family and how these discussions delimited who should be part of or exist under the banner of "la gran familia mexicana". I discuss how eugenicists' debates regarding motherhood, puericulture, class, and different preventive health measures were intended to keep "undesirables"-or the people who, in their view, should not be part of "la gran familia mexicana"-at bay. I argue that science was used as a tool for implementing different eugenic plans that would make ideas of mestizaje and "rational mixing" into the modern Mexican nation. I argue that according to the Mexican Society of Eugenics (MSE), it was through the regulation of individual families and the acceptance of eugenic precept of self-management and rational reproduction that the creation of the national family was to be crafted. Thus, the "gran familia mexicana" would become the organizing principle for both the individual and broader national dynamics in Mexico. | INTRODUCTIONThe post-revolutionary conceptualization of la gran familia mexicana is very important to the broader understanding of Mexican eugenics. By studying the ways in which Mexican elites thought about the family, this article will address the following questions: what would be the role of women in post-revolutionary Mexico? What did Mexican eugenicists and eugenic science have to say about the care of children, womanhood, masculinity, and feminism? Which were the appropriate eugenic measures to take care of the future of Mexican generations to come? Were sterilization and abortion measures a viable answer to prevent eugenic degeneration? In short, who should, or could be part of la gran familia mexicana? I will mainly use the

In Mexico, links have been made between the COVID‐19 pandemic and China that point to the continuing deprecation of the Chinese and the perpetuation of anti‐Chinese logics reflecting the legacies of ‘race’ science. This short article argues that these dynamics reflect a systemic and collective anti‐Chinese sentiment that stems from Mexican eugenics and the modern conceptions of mestizaje. The purpose of this piece is to observe how discourses of ‘race’ link with the COVID‐19 pandemic in order to explore how these ostensibly natural occurrences exacerbate pre‐existing social inequalities.

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Set in 2218, the novel Eugenia envisions a contradictory utopian and dystopian future premised upon eugenical engineering. Here, I analyse Urzaiz's vision of the beginnings of eugenics in Mexico. Ultimately, I argue that Villautopia is presented as ever-vigilant and always responding to threats of degeneracy and social disorder, which accurately the reflect eugenicist underpinnings of Urzaiz's time. An analysis of Urzaiz himself and the Yucatán context is key as it envisions, translates and produces new eugenic ideas that deterritorialise eugenics and portrays it both in a 'positive' way while providing a series of 'negative' possibilities as a probable outcome.

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