Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950
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Carnegie Institution in Washington
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childrearing
Clark Wissler
Columbia University
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Cultural Diplomacy
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Direccion de Asuntos Indigenas
Dorothea Leighton
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Franz Boas
Good Neighbor Policy
heredity
History of Anthropology
History of Latin American Studies
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History of Science in Mexico
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Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales
Inter-American Affairs
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internal colonialism
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Jose Vasconcelos
Kurt Lewin
Latin eugenics
Laura Thompson
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Lucio Mendieta y Nunez
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Melville Herskovits
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National Research Council
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Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Otomi
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race and citizenship
race and class
race and climate
race and culture
Race and national identity
race and photography in Mexico
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Race in Mexico
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racial categorization
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Robert Redfield
Robert Yerkes
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Secretaria de Educacion Publica
segregation
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settler colonialism
social science comparisons
social science networks
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socialist education in Mexico
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Product details
- ISBN 9781469636405
- Weight: 393g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2018
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and policies toward indigenous peoples. Focusing on the anthropologists, sociologists, biologists, physicians, and other experts who collaborated across borders from the Mexican Revolution through World War II, Rosemblatt traces how intellectuals on both sides of the Rio Grande forged shared networks in which they discussed indigenous peoples and other ethnic minorities. In doing so, Rosemblatt argues, they refashioned race as a scientific category and consolidated their influence within their respective national policy circles.
Postrevolutionary Mexican experts aimed to transform their country into a modern secular state with a dynamic economy, and central to this endeavor was learning how to ""manage"" racial difference and social welfare. The same concern animated U.S. New Deal policies toward Native Americans. The scientists' border-crossing conceptions of modernity, race, evolution, and pluralism were not simple one-way impositions or appropriations, and they had significant effects. In the United States, the resulting approaches to the management of Native American affairs later shaped policies toward immigrants and black Americans, in Mexico, officials rejected policy prescriptions they associated with U.S. intellectual imperialism and racial segregation.
Postrevolutionary Mexican experts aimed to transform their country into a modern secular state with a dynamic economy, and central to this endeavor was learning how to ""manage"" racial difference and social welfare. The same concern animated U.S. New Deal policies toward Native Americans. The scientists' border-crossing conceptions of modernity, race, evolution, and pluralism were not simple one-way impositions or appropriations, and they had significant effects. In the United States, the resulting approaches to the management of Native American affairs later shaped policies toward immigrants and black Americans, in Mexico, officials rejected policy prescriptions they associated with U.S. intellectual imperialism and racial segregation.
Karin Rosemblatt is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland and the author of Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950.
