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Chino : Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940 /

From the late 19th century to the 1930s, antichinismo - the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans - found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state, and the elite in control, of it build their nation....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chang, Jason Oliver (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Finding Mexico's Chinese, Encountering the Mestizo State; 1. The Politics of Chinese Immigration in the Era of Mexican National Colonization; 2. Motores de Sangre: They Do Not Think, or Assimilate, or Master; 3. Violent Imaginaries and the Beginnings of a New State; 4. Abajo Los Chinos: The Political Invention of Mestizo Nationalism; 5. Forging a Racial Contract; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.