The Issue of Blackness and<i>Mestizaje</i>in Two Distinct Mexican Contexts: Veracruz and Costa Chica

Hoffmann, Odile; Rinaudo, Christian

doi:10.1080/17442222.2013.874643

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“…Nevertheless, blacks suffer from the legacy of slavery, as well as numerous forms of historic and contemporary disadvantage (Solís, Güémez, and Holmes 2019), including discrimination in education and the labor market (CONAPRED 2011; Flores Dávila 2006; Sue, forthcoming). They face continued discrimination related to antiblack stereotypes (CONAPRED 2011; Flores Dávila 2006; Hoffman and Rinaudo 2014; Lara 2014; Lewis 2012; Sue 2013; Vaughn 2001), phenotype (skin color, hair texture, facial features) (Sue 2013, forthcoming; Vaughn 2001), and way of speaking (Lewis 2012; Sue, forthcoming).…”

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“…For blacks, however, a national-level black social movement does not exist, and the population has generally not been the subject of government ethnoracial policies. Although nearly a dozen black organizations are present in the Costa Chica, the center of black politics in Mexico (see Lara 2014; Weltman-Cisneros and Méndez Tello 2013), these groups lack a cohesive framework surrounding the meaning of or criteria for blackness (Hoffman 2014; Hoffman and Rinaudo 2014; Lara 2014). Many Mexicans who identify as black do not root their blackness in African heritage (Hoffman and Rinaudo 2014; Lewis 2000; Martínez Montiel 1994; Sue 2013, forthcoming; Sue and Golash-Boza 2009) and they prioritize their national identity over a black one (Sue forthcoming).…”

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“…We use the term “black-indigenous” to refer to those who checked the categories of black and indigenous on government forms. Although beyond the scope of this article, identification as black and black-indigenous likely holds very different meanings based on local context (Hoffman 2014; Hoffman and Rinaudo 2014; Lara 2014). We use the term “categories” to avoid “groupism,” or the tendency to take discrete, bounded groups as basic constituents of social life, chief protagonists of social conflicts, and fundamental units of social analysis” (Brubaker 2004, 8; see DaCosta 2020 for discussion on U.S. multiracials and groupness).…”

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Black and Indigenous Inequality in Mexico: Implications for Multiracialism and Intersectionality Research

Sue

Riosmena

2021

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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In recent decades, an increasing number of Latin American countries have included ethnoracial questions on their censuses, giving rise to unprecedented data on monoracial and multiracial forms of classification. In Mexico, the government launched a count of its black population for the first time in the nation’s history in 2015, in addition to its long-standing practice of enumerating its indigenous population. Most recently in 2018, it conducted a survey, again asking about both black and indigenous identification. Within this short time span, the black population grew from 1.8 percent to 5.9 percent, becoming a sizable, statistically visible minority. A large majority of black individuals also identified as indigenous, revealing an important form of dual-minority multiracialism. In this article, we analyze these unprecedented data, detailing the size, composition, and growth of these populations. We use the Mexican case to illustrate the potential implications of measuring ethnoracial inequality using single- versus dual-category approaches. We find that black disadvantage is considerably more pronounced when explicitly allowing for multiracial classification. Methodologically, our findings contribute to nascent conversations about how to incorporate the new social and statistical realities of multiracialism in inequality analyses. Theoretically, we expand the multiracialism literature from its traditional focus on part-white mixtures, to a focus on overlapping minority classification. Finally, we build on theories of intersectionality, which generally focus on intersections of oppression across multiple “master statuses” (e.g., race, class, and gender), by also examining intersecting oppressions within the single master status of race.

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Black and Indigenous Inequality in Mexico: Implications for Multiracialism and Intersectionality Research

Sue

Riosmena

2021

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…Although studies of issues related to racial differences in Mexico are not new (see, e.g., Vasconcelos, 2015 [1925] and Aguirre Beltrán, 1972 [1946]), research on this topic has increased substantially in recent years (Arceo-Gomez and Campos-Vazquez, 2014; CONAPRED, 2011; Flores and Telles, 2012; Gall, 2004; Hoffmann and Rinaudo, 2014; Lewis, 2000; Martínez Casas et al, 2014; Stavenhagen, 2014; Sue, 2013; Telles, Flores, and Urrea-Giraldo, 2015; Telles and the PERLA, 2014; Villarreal, 2010). Most of these works focus on collecting solid and generalizable empirical quantitative evidence 10 to enable a better understanding of issues such as racial discrimination (including discrimination based on skin color), racial identification, and the importance of racial differences in social stratification.…”

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“…Finally, Hoffmann and Rinaudo (2014) compared two Mexican contexts with predominantly black populations and different degrees of racial mixing, the Costa Chica and Veracruz. This allowed them to observe, even if indirectly, the possible implications of varying degrees of racial mixing for the lives of Afro-Mexicans.…”

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Racial Mixing and National Integration in Latin America: The Return of Racial Differences in Mexico and Brazil

Cantalapiedra¹

2017

Latin American Perspectives

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The importance of racial differences in the configuration of Latin American societies has for decades been overshadowed by ideologies of racial mixing and social-class-based approaches to the analysis of the region’s societies. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century increased attention has been devoted to racial differences both in public policy and in social science research. Government affirmative action designed to reverse social inequalities due to racial differences in Brazil and the results of research on racial differences and racial mixing in Mexico indicate that, as Rodolfo Stavenhagen argued 50 years ago, racial mixing does not contribute to national integration. La transcendencia de las diferencias raciales en la configuración de las sociedades latinoamericanas ha sido poco atendida durante décadas; inicialmente, fue opacada por las ideologías del mestizaje, y posteriormente ensombrecida por el predominio de las clases sociales como forma de analizar a las sociedades de esta región. Desde a comienzos del siglo XXI, las diferencias raciales han adquirido notoriedad en Latinoamérica, tanto en las investigaciones en ciencias sociales como en las políticas públicas. Las políticas públicas de acción afirmativa conducidas por el gobierno brasileño y los hallazgos de las investigaciones más recientes en cuestiones referidas a las diferencias raciales y al mestizaje en el caso de México indican que, como dijo Rodolfo Stavenhagen hace cincuenta años, el mestizaje no contribuye a la integración nacional.

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Is Mexico beyondmestizaje? Blackness, race mixture, and discrimination

Sue

2021

Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies

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The Issue of Blackness andMestizajein Two Distinct Mexican Contexts: Veracruz and Costa Chica

Cited by 6 publications

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Black and Indigenous Inequality in Mexico: Implications for Multiracialism and Intersectionality Research

Black and Indigenous Inequality in Mexico: Implications for Multiracialism and Intersectionality Research

Racial Mixing and National Integration in Latin America: The Return of Racial Differences in Mexico and Brazil

Is Mexico beyondmestizaje? Blackness, race mixture, and discrimination

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