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Riot and rebellion in Mexico : the making of a race war paradigm
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- Summary
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"The book examines how the concepts of equality and revolution changed over time in Mexico and acquired new significance in the midst of indigenous rebellions and transnational economic, political,...
"The book examines how the concepts of equality and revolution changed over time in Mexico and acquired new significance in the midst of indigenous rebellions and transnational economic, political, and cultural exchanges. Using a variety of sources, including plays, newspaper articles, maps, and legal documents, it traces how race-based events were presented as the single most-important threat to a fragile state recently separated from the Spanish Empire, with this race-based narrative used as a form of control both within Mexico and in dealings with foreign authorities in the Caribbean"--
Details
- Creator
- Ana Sabau
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 319 pages)
- ISBNs
- 1477324232, 9781477324233, 9781477324240, 9781477324226, 1477324240, 1477324224
- OCLC
- on1286367037
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part I. The Bajío. Vanishing Indianness : pacification and the production of race in the 1767 Bajío riots -- "So that they may be free of all those things" : theorizing collective action in the Bajío riots -- From the country to the city : movement, labor, and race at the end of the eighteenth century -- Part II. Haiti. The domino affect : Haiti, New Spain, and the racial pedagogy of distance -- Staging fear and freedom : Haiti's shifting proximities at the time of Mexican independence -- Haiti in Mexico's early republican context -- Part III. Yucatán. On criminality, race, and labor : indenture and the Caste War -- The shapes of a desert : the racial cartographies of the Caste War -- "Barbarous Mexico" : racialized coercive labor from Sonora to Yucatán