Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1525/msem.2023.39.2.302
J. Jolly
Abstract:Independence hero José María Morelos y Pavón has been described racially as criollo, mestizo, Indigenous, mulato, and moreno, and scholars have long turned to his portraits to support claims made about his racial identity. However, the ambiguity of his social status during life and in his portraits has allowed scholars to project and reaffirm racial thinking rather than challenge its assumptions. Departing from this perspective, this essay examines his representation in text and image as a means of excavating the changing racial ideologies of nineteenth-century Mexico and the visual technologies that supported them. During Morelos’s lifetime, caste (lineage) remained the most significant signifier of status; however, emerging ideas regarding physiognomy, empiricism, and the bodily manifestation of racial character enabled competing assertions about Morelos’s race by midcentury. In the later nineteenth century, ethnohistorical notions of race began to emerge, allowing race to serve as an allegory of Mexico’s body politic. In this final phase, the ideology of Brownness emerged as a foil to mestizaje: a national body politic that created space for mixtures inclusive of Afro-Mexicans.Abstract:El héroe de la Independencia José María Morelos y Pavón ha sido caracterizado como personaje criollo, mestizo, indígena, mulato y moreno, y los historiadores han analizado los retratos de Morelos para respaldar posturas propias sobre la identidad racial de Morelos. Sin embargo, la ambigüedad de la posición social de Morelos durante su vida y en los retratos ha permitido a los historiadores proyectar y reafirmar la ideología racial, en lugar de cuestionar sus suposiciones. Divergiendo de esta perspectiva, en este ensayo examino su representación en texto e imagen como un medio para excavar las ideologías raciales cambiantes del México del siglo XIX y las tecnologías visuales que las sustentaron. Durante la vida de Morelos, la casta (o linaje) fue el indicador de estatus más importante; sin embargo, ideas emergentes con respecto a la fisonomía, el empirismo y la manifestación corporal del carácter racial permitieron afirmaciones contrapuestas sobre la raza de Morelos a mediados de siglo. En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, comenzaron a surgir nociones etnohistóricas de raza, lo que permitió que la raza sirviera como una alegoría del cuerpo político de México. En esta fase final, la ideología de la “morenidad” surgió como alternativa al mestizaje: un cuerpo político nacional que creó espacio para las mezclas que incluían a los afromexicanos.
摘要:独立英雄jos María Morelos y Pavón在种族上被描述为克里奥罗人、混血儿、土著、黑白混血儿和莫雷诺人,学者们长期以来一直通过他的肖像来支持有关他的种族身份的主张。然而,在他的生活和他的肖像中,他的社会地位的模糊性使学者们能够投射和重申种族思想,而不是挑战其假设。从这个角度出发,本文考察了他在文本和图像中的表现,作为挖掘19世纪墨西哥不断变化的种族意识形态和支持这些意识形态的视觉技术的一种手段。在莫雷洛斯的一生中,种姓(血统)仍然是地位最重要的象征;然而,到本世纪中叶,关于面相学、经验主义和种族特征的身体表现的新兴观点使莫雷洛斯的种族主张相互竞争。在19世纪后期,种族的民族历史概念开始出现,使种族成为墨西哥政体的寓言。在这个最后阶段,布朗意识形态作为梅斯蒂扎伊的陪衬出现:一个为包括非洲裔墨西哥人在内的混合创造空间的国家政治体。摘要:《独立人格研究进展María莫雷洛斯州Pavón》研究了莫雷洛斯州、混血儿、混血儿、莫雷洛斯州、莫雷洛斯州的历史特征,分析了莫雷洛斯州的历史特征,分析了莫雷洛斯州的历史特征。在禁运中,la ambigicedad de la posición社会de Morelos durante su vidas被允许的历史学家重新确认了ideología种族,en lugar de questionar sus posiciones。从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看,从不同的角度看。Durante la vida de Morelos, la casta (o linaje) fuue el indicator de status más important;在禁运期间,出现了关于“经验主义”fisonomía、“经验主义”manifestación“种族主义”carácter“种族主义”、“种族主义”、“种族主义”、“种族主义”等观点。在第19次会议上,赞扬一名外科医生etnohistóricas和一名医生permitió和一名医生permitió和一名医生alegoría和一名医生político和一名医生。在最后一场比赛中,la ideología de la " morenidad " surgió como alternativa al mesestizaje: un cuerpo político national que creó espacio para las mezclas que incluían a los afromexicanos。
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Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1525/msem.2023.39.2.185
Eric Zolov
Abstract:More than a decade after the proposal to “broaden our conceptual understanding” to incorporate cultural practices and transnational approaches to interpretations of the New Left, Mexican historians continue to stake out diverging positions with respect to what constitutes a New Left framework. By comparison to Southern Cone scholarship, a palpable disconnect has existed within Mexican literature between those focusing on a narrower interpretation of political history and those focusing on a more expansive one. This article reviews the literature on New Left scholarship in comparative perspective and proposes several interpretations for why Southern Cone research has achieved more integration of cultural and political history than Mexican scholarship has. The article concludes with a discussion of recent research that points in the direction of a potential convergence both within Mexican historiography and between Mexican and Southern Cone historians investigating the Long 1960s.Abstract:Más de una década después de la propuesta de “ampliar nuestra comprensión conceptual” para incorporar prácticas culturales y enfoques transnacionales en las interpretaciones de la Nueva Izquierda, los historiadores mexicanos siguen mostrando posiciones divergentes con respecto al marco conceptual de la Nueva Izquierda. En contraste con estudios en el Cono Sur, existe una desconexión palpable en la literatura mexicana entre aquellos historiadores que presentan una interpretación más estrecha de la historia política del país y aquellos que buscan una interpretación más amplia. Este artículo revisa la literatura sobre los estudios de la Nueva Izquierda desde una perspectiva comparada y propone varias interpretaciones de por qúe la investigación del Cono Sur ha logrado una mayor integración de la historia cultural y política que los estudios mexicanos. El artículo concluye con una discusión de investigación reciente que apunta en la dirección de una convergencia potencial tanto dentro de la historiografía mexicana como entre los historiadores mexicanos y del Cono Sur sobre los Largos 1960s.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1525/msem.2023.39.2.241
Mónica García Blizzard
Abstract:Though commercially successful at home and widely recognized abroad, Roberto Gavaldón’s 1960 film Macario has been underexamined by critics and scholars due to its effortful artistic pretensions, strategies for exalting popular nationalist culture, connections to foreign cultural products, and place within Mexican film history’s narrative of post–golden age decline. In alignment with recent scholarship questioning the role of tastemakers and their verdicts on popular Mexican cinema, this article draws on Andrew Higson’s theorization of national films as strategic interventions within the heterogenous and even contradictory symbolic field of national-identity discourses. Through film analysis and informed by Claudio Lomnitz’s understanding of Mexico’s three national totems, this study demonstrates how Gavaldón’s Macario promotes popular death culture by embedding it within key preexisting discourses tied to Mexican identity. In so doing, this article illuminates Macario’s significance within Mexican cinema history as the most prominent filmic contributor to the hoisting of Mexican death culture as the symbol of mexicanidad. Moreover, this study posits Gavaldón’s film as an indispensable precursor for understanding how Mexican death culture today operates matter of factly as metonym for the nation in audiovisual mediums consumed globally.Abstract:A pesar de su éxito taquillero en México y reconocimiento en el extranjero, Macario de Roberto Gavaldón (1960) ha sido marginalizada por críticos y académicos debido a sus pretensiones artísticas, exaltación de la cultura popular nacionalista, influencias europeas y el supuesto declive del cine nacional después de la época de oro. En consonancia con recientes estudios que cuestionan aproximaciones hacia el cine popular, este artículo se basa en la teorización de películas nacionales como intervenciones dentro del campo discursivamente heterogéneo de la identidad nacional. A través de análisis fílmico e informado por el estudio de los tres tótems nacionales (Claudio Lomnitz), argumento que Macario promueve la cultura popular de la muerte por medio de su inserción dentro de otros discursos preexistentes ligados a la identidad mexicana. De esta manera, se plantea la importancia de Macario como la película nacional que más prominentemente ha contribuido a la elevación de Día de Muertos como símbolo de la mexicanidad y, por lo tanto, su posición como precursor indispensable para comprender la función metonímica que hoy ejerce Día de Muertos en representaciones audiovisuales de México consumidas globalmente.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1525/msem.2023.39.2.215
Beatriz Urías Horcasitas
Abstract:Este artículo examina los enfrentamientos generados por la Revolución cubana en la izquierda intelectual mexicana al inicio de 1970. La correspondencia de Laurette Séjourné, arqueóloga de origen italiano radicada en México, permite identificar las tensiones que se produjeron entre quienes mantuvieron una lealtad incondicional hacia el régimen cubano y aquellos que pusieron una distancia a partir de la sovietización. Esta confrontación muestra que la Nueva Izquierda no fue un grupo ideológicamente homogéneo e invita a problematizar el uso de esta categoría.Abstract:This paper examines the clashes among leftist Mexican intellectuals at the beginning of the 1970s as a consequence of the Cuban Revolution. The correspondence of Laurette Séjourné, an archeologist of Italian origin based in Mexico, provides a source for identifying the tensions generated between those who had maintained an unconditional loyalty toward the Cuban regime and those who had distanced themselves following its Sovietization. This confrontation shows that the New Left was not an ideologically homogenous group and leads to questioning the use of this category.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1525/msem.2023.39.2.271
Alberto del Castillo Troncoso
Abstract:This article revisits one of the most iconic moments in the recent history of photojournalism in Mexico: the Zapatista uprising at Chiapas in 1994. Throughout the essay, the publication of Pedro Valtierra’s famous photograph of a group of women who bravely confronted the Mexican Army on January 3, 1998, which immediately obtained international recognition, is reviewed, followed by an analysis of the photographer’s work, as well as the historical context within which the images depicted are situated. Through the analysis of photographs, combined with the narrated experiences of the photojournalists who created them, I examine the development of new political identities, such as indigenous Zapatista women, as well as the changing roles of photographs and the media press during the last years of the twentieth century.Abstract:Este artículo recorre uno de los momentos más icónicos de la historia reciente del fotoperiodismo en México: el levantamiento zapatista en Chiapas en 1994. A lo largo del texto, la publicación de la famosa fotografía de Pedro Valtierra sobre un grupo de mujeres que se enfrentaron valientemente al Ejército Mexicano el 3 de enero de 1998 –la cual obtuvo reconocimiento internacional inmediato– se reseña al tiempo que se ofrece un seguimiento de la obra del fotógrafo y del contexto histórico en el que se ubican las imágenes sobre estos temas. A través del análisis de las fotografías combinadas con las experiencias narradas de los fotoperiodistas que las crearon, el artículo indaga tanto sobre el surgimiento de nuevas identidades políticas –como las de las mujeres indígenas zapatistas– como sobre los roles cambiantes de las fotografías y la prensa mediática durante los últimos años del siglo XX.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1525/msem.2023.39.1.7
L. Stephen, Laura Velasco-Ortiz
According to Danielè Dehouve (2015, 28), migrations created the roots of pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples. Nevertheless, those lengthy pilgrimages in search of new lands turned into exoduses due to forced displacement and relocation in order to work forcibly under Spanish colonialism and its continuation through Criollos in independence. Centuries after those foundational and enforced displacements, well into the twenty-first century, Indigenous mobilities challenge the geography of mestizo/Ladino nationalist maps. We are witnessing great diversity in Indigenous peoples’ displacements and mobilities that question the typical concepts and approaches used to characterize urban marginalization and rural Indigenous peasants. In addition to mass labor-related displacements, others are due to expulsion or people fleeing violence, or because of the transformation of how younger generations conceptualize their lives, futures, and possibilities. At the same time, the dispersion and fragmentation of Indigenous peoples are accompanied by new territorialities, and new forms of coexistence and communal relationships. This special issue brings together a set of articles on contemporary Mesoamerican Indigenous mobilities in Mexico and the United
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1525/msem.2023.39.1.59
Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez
Abstract:A más de tres décadas de la migración maya yucateca a Estados Unidos (1990–2018), se tiene noticia del retorno familiar a Yucatán con hijos nacidos en Estados Unidos y del regreso reciente de esta generación a Estados Unidos. Con base en la perspectiva teórica del retorno transnacional, en este artículo analizo cómo las experiencias de retorno y los procesos de integración laboral y social de la generación migrante en México se entrelazan con el regreso reciente de la segunda generación de México a Estados Unidos. Argumento que emigrar y retornar transnacionalmente son estrategias de sobrevivencia familiar que conectan a múltiples generaciones de migrantes y no migrantes en redes familiares extensas y comunitarias a lo largo del circuito migratorio península de Yucatán-California-Oregón-Oklahoma. Finalmente, el artículo también muestra cómo la segunda generación maya yucateca retornada a Estados Unidos ha desarrollado un sentido de identidad y una vida familiar transnacional que la vincula con nuevas experiencias y relaciones locales-comunitarias en Yucatán y Estados Unidos.Abstract:After thirty years of the Yucatecan Mayan migration to the United States (1990–2018), the Yucatec Mayas have been returning to Yucatán with US-born children, and, more recently, this second generation of Yucatec Mayas raised in Yucatán has been returning to the United States. Drawing on transnational return theory, this article analyzes the experience of family return to Yucatán and the labor and social integration of the migrant generation, as well as the return of the second generation from Yucatán to the United States. I argue that experiences of transnational return reveal family strategies for survival that connect multiple generations of migrants and nonmigrant workers in wide family and community networks through the migratory circuit of Yucatán-California-Oregon-Oklahoma. Finally, I also show that upon return to the United States, the second-generation Yucatec Maya develops a sense of identity and transnational family life that connect them with new experiences and community relations in Yucatán and the United States.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1525/msem.2023.39.1.117
L. Stephen
Abstract:This article contributes to scholarly and policy conversations about diasporic Indigenous peoples from Mexico and Guatemala and forms of discrimination, through lack of attention to language and culture, that result in differential health and economic outcomes for Indigenous workers. In tandem, it emphasizes the ways that Indigenous farmworkers attempt to compensate for this discrimination by establishing forms of community care: emotional support, mutual aid of many kinds, and the integration of care work into daily life. I conceptualize Indigenous farmworkers as integral parts of families and communities built on relational connections and circuits of care linked across many borders. This article is based primarily on quantitative and qualitative findings from the Oregon COVID-19 Farmworkers Study (COFS), which included surveys with three hundred farmworkers, qualitative interviews with forty-eight of them, and identified twenty-nine Mesoamerican languages in Oregon.Abstract:Este artículo contribuye a la discusión académica y política sobre los pueblos indígenas de la diáspora de México y Guatemala, así como las formas de discriminación por falta de atención al idioma y la cultura que resultan en diferencias económicas y de salud para los trabajadores indígenas en comparación con los no-indígenas. Asimismo, enfatizo las formas en que los trabajadores agrícolas indígenas intentan compensar esta discriminación estableciendo formas de cuidado tales como apoyo emocional, ayuda mutua de muchos tipos y la integración del trabajo de cuidado en la vida diaria. Conceptualizo a los trabajadores agrícolas indígenas como partes integrales de familias y comunidades construidas sobre conexiones relacionales y circuitos de atención vinculados a través de muchas fronteras. El artículo se basa principalmente en hallazgos cuantitativos y cualitativos del Estudio de trabajadores agrícolas COVID-19 de Oregόn (COFS, por sus siglas en inglés), que incluyó encuestas con trescientos trabajadores agrícolas, entrevistas cualitativas con cuarenta y ocho e identificó veintinueve idiomas mesoamericanos en Oregόn.
摘要:本文对来自墨西哥和危地马拉的散居土著人民的学术和政策对话以及由于缺乏对语言和文化的关注而导致土著工人的不同健康和经济结果的歧视形式作出了贡献。同时,它强调了土著农场工人试图通过建立各种形式的社区护理来弥补这种歧视的方式:情感支持,多种互助,以及将护理工作融入日常生活。我将土著农场工人定义为家庭和社区的组成部分,这些家庭和社区建立在跨国界的关系联系和护理回路之上。本文主要基于俄勒冈州COVID-19农场工人研究(COFS)的定量和定性结果,该研究包括对300名农场工人进行调查,对其中48人进行定性访谈,并确定了俄勒冈州的29种中美洲语言。文摘:埃斯特危象contribuye一对比academica y politica,洛普韦布洛人indigenas y de la侨民墨西哥危地马拉,asi科莫las简称formas de discriminacion为什么falta de atencion al语言y,洛杉矶文化resultan diferencias经济学y de salud帕洛trabajadores indigenas en comparacion洛no-indigenas监狱。Asimismo, enfatizo las formas en que los trabajadores agrícolas indígenas intintcompensar esta discriminación estableciendo formas de cuidado tales como apoyo emoemote, ayuda mutua de muchos tipos y la integración del trabajo de cuidado en la vida diaria。概念化的贸易伙伴关系agrícolas indígenas共同的伙伴关系、家庭的整体关系、社会的整体关系、社会的整体关系、社会的整体关系、社会的整体关系atención、社会的整体关系、社会的整体关系、社会的整体关系、社会的整体关系、社会的整体关系。El artículo se basa principalmente en hallazgos定量分析与定性分析agrícolas俄勒冈州的COVID-19 (COFS), que incluyó encustas econtrecientos trabajadores agrícolas, entrevistas qualitativas econculentas culentas econculentas econculentas econculentas econculentas econculentas econculentas econculentas econculentas econculentas econculentas econculentas econculentas en oregon . identificó中美洲人的idiomas mesoamericanos en oregon . cn。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1525/msem.2023.39.1.92
Maylei Blackwell
Native people in what is now colonially known as North America speak of “Indian time” to refer to the way time moves differently from colonial temporal registers in native spaces, communities, and stories. Indigenous social movements across Abiayala assert the right to self-determination, autonomy, or sovereignty by evoking the “millennial cultures” of Indigenous people. To claim a political logic of origins embedded in phrases like time immemorial is to be involved in time politics. Indigenous politics asserts firstness—as First Nations or original peoples—to challenge colonial and settler forms of recognition that rely on a temporal logic that centers settlers’ arrival while locking Indigenous people in a time trap in which their authenticity—indeed often the definition of who is counted in Indigenous—does not change (Barker 2011). Indigenous rights are evoked in political declarations not only through the millennial cultures of Indigenous peoples but also through their continued presence and the fight for their futurities, which is part of the struggle to dismantle a genocidal trope that renders Indigenous cultures as perpetually fixed in the past. For example, Mexico imagines the temporal emplotment of the nation as starting with the grandeur of Indigenous cultures, which quickly disappears in a linear narrative of conquest, colonization, independence, revolution, and modernity. Indigenous peoples are
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1525/msem.2023.39.1.145
M. B. Castellanos
Abstract:The pandemic catapulted Mexican cities into spaces of trauma and loss and as sites of state failure. For Maya migrants, state failure forms part of a history of settler violence and neglect. In Cancún, settler tactics promote a narrative of a city of immigrants. These tactics erase Indigenous urbanisms seeking to uphold Indigenous self-determination and nurture u kuxtal yéetel u máatsil máako'ob/convivencia, a Maya ethics of sociality and care based on caring for each other. I argue that the ethics of care and place-making entailed in convivencia help Maya migrants experience the metropole as a space of reciprocity, survival, and healing.Abstract:Durante la pandemia, las ciudades mexicanas se convirtieron en espacios de trauma, demostrando fracasos estatales. Para los migrantes mayas, estos fracasos forman parte de una larga historia de violencia y abandono colonial. En Cancún, tácticas bajo un colonialismo de asentamiento promueven narrativas de la ciudad como un espacio de inmigrantes, ignorando los urbanismos indígenas que luchan por la defensa de la autodeterminación indígena y fomentan la convivencia/u kuxtal yéetel u máatsil máako'ob, una ética maya de sociabilidad basada en el cuidado mutuo. Propongo que esta ética y la generación de espacios sociales de ayuda mutua implicados en la práctica de convivencia ayudan a los migrantes mayas a usar Cancún como un espacio de reciprocidad, supervivencia y sanación.
摘要:大流行使墨西哥城市成为创伤和损失的空间,成为国家失败的场所。对玛雅移民来说,国家的失败构成了定居者暴力和忽视历史的一部分。在Cancún中,定居者的策略促进了一个移民城市的叙述。这些策略抹去了寻求维护土著自决和培育u kuxtal y ettel u máatsil máako'ob/convivencia的土著城市主义,这是玛雅人的社会伦理和基于相互照顾的关怀。我认为,便利所包含的关怀伦理和场所创造帮助玛雅移民将大都市体验为一个互惠、生存和治愈的空间。摘要:流感大流行,墨西哥城市环境,创伤空间,传染性疾病。Para los migrantes mayas, estos fracasos forman partite de una large history de violence by abando colonial。En Cancún, tácticas bajo uncolonialismo de asentamiito promotion。支持通过generación建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间,建立相互影响的社会空间。
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