Racial Hybridity and Challenge of Modernity in Post-Colonial Mexico

• Authors: Ivo Budil
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The emergence of the modern racial ideology should be studied in the context of the concrete political events and transformation of the global world-system at the dawn of the modern era. Racial discourse presented somatic metaphor of asymmetrical distribution of political, economic and symbolic power in hierarchy of the world-system. Therefore, the development of the postcolonial Mexican society and the war between the United States of America and Mexico were interpreted and conceptualized by contemporary authors by terminology and logic of racial imagination involving the picture of the racial rise of Anglo-Saxons and the decline of mestizos and creoles.

Keywords

EN

History of Mexico; Race; Mestizo; Anglo-Saxon Race; History of the United States of America; Edward Burnett Tylor; Brantz Mayer; Hector Saint John; Crèvecoeur

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
• Journal: West Bohemian Historical Review
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 24-41

Contributors

author

Ivo Budil

• Filozofická fakulta FF ZČU v Plzni, Tylova 18, 301 25, Plzeň, Czech Republic