{"product_id":"blackness-in-mexico-afro-mexican-recognition-and-the-production-of-citizenship-in-the-costa-chica-hardcover","title":"Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony Russell Jerry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn up-close view of the movement to make \"Afro-Mexican\" an official cultural category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough historical and ethnographic research, \u003ci\u003eBlackness in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e delves into the ongoing movement toward recognizing Black Mexicans as a cultural group within a nation that has long viewed the non-Black \u003ci\u003eMestizo\u003c\/i\u003e as the archetypal citizen. Anthony Jerry focuses on this process in Mexico's Costa Chica region in order to explore the relational aspects of citizenship and the place of Black people in how modern citizenship is imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry's study of the Costa Chica shows the political stakes of the national project for Black recognition; the shared but competing interests of the Mexican government, activists, and townspeople; and the ways that the state and NGOs are working to make \"Afro-Mexican\" an official cultural category. He argues that that the demand for recognition by Black communities calls attention to how the \u003ci\u003eMestizo\u003c\/i\u003e has become an intuitive point of reference for identifying who qualifies as \"other.\" Jerry also demonstrates that while official recognition can potentially empower African descendants, it can simultaneously reproduce the same logics of difference that have brought about their social and political exclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of few books to center Blackness within a discussion of Mexico or to incorporate a focus on Mexico into Black studies, this book ultimately argues that the official project for recognition is itself a methodology of \u003ci\u003emestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e, an opportunity for the government to continue to use Blackness to define the national subject and to further the Mexican national project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Russell Jerry\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 234\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 16, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67974059917464,"sku":"9780813069661","price":144.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/SliTqYvOYy9780813069661.webp?v=1794419471","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobookstore.com\/products\/blackness-in-mexico-afro-mexican-recognition-and-the-production-of-citizenship-in-the-costa-chica-hardcover","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}