| Racial Alterity, Wixarika Youth Activism, and the Right to the Mexican City Contributor(s): Negrín, Diana (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816540012 ISBN-13: 9780816540013 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Indigenous Studies - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 972.004 |
| LCCN: 2019009782 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.54 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: While the population of Indigenous peoples living in Mexico's cities has steadily increased over the past four decades, both the state and broader society have failed to recognize this geographic heterogeneity by continuing to expect Indigenous peoples to live in rural landscapes that are anathema to a modern Mexico. This book examines the legacy of the racial imaginary in Mexico with a focus on the Wixarika (Huichol) Indigenous peoples of the western Sierra Madre from the colonial period to the present. Through an examination of the politics of identity, space, and activism among Wixarika university students living and working in the western Mexican cities of Tepic and Guadalajara, geographer Diana Negr n analyzes the production of racialized urban geographies and reveals how Wixarika youth are making claims to a more heterogeneous citizenship that challenges these deep-seated discourses and practices. Through the weaving together of historical material, critical interdisciplinary scholarship, and rich ethnography, this book sheds light on the racialized history, urban transformation, and contemporary Indigenous activism of a region of Mexico that has remained at the margins of scholarship. |