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José Eduardo Múzquiz

Review of Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940 by Jason Oliver Chang (2017)

February 4, 2025

Studies on racial systems in Mexico have often explored the myth of mestizaje or the continued oppression of Indigenous people even after the abolition of institutionalized racism. In Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, Jason Oliver Chang directs our attention towards the “other” that delimits the borders of the unstable pact of Mexicanity. Chinese people — […]

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