1994
DOI: 10.2307/1051969
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Peasants into Patriots: Thoughts on the Making of the Mexican Nation

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“…Mexico is the classical example using Aztec and Maya Archaeology as a prime idea for national identity (The periodization of pre‐Hispanic times is divided into three stages: Preclassic 2500–200 bc : Classic 200 bc –900 ad and Post‐classic, 900 bc –1521). Another primordial idea of origin, involving indigenous peoples, is the myth of descent, the mestizo myth, the idealized union between male European and female indigenousness, whose influence has guided nation‐building policies throughout the twentieth century (Glantz, ; Knight, ; Lomnitz‐Adler ; Paz, ; Vasconcelos, , Gutierrez, ). Peruvian intellectuals and nationalists were prone to reject and exclude the pre‐Hispanic past from the nationalist imaginary, notwithstanding the splendid Archaeology of the Inca state or Tahuantisuyo (twelfth to sixteenth centuries). Frequent indigenous rebellions in the sixteenth century were reasons for rejecting and suppressing indigenous cultural revivals or admiration for the past.…”
Section: Three Types Of Nationalismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Mexico is the classical example using Aztec and Maya Archaeology as a prime idea for national identity (The periodization of pre‐Hispanic times is divided into three stages: Preclassic 2500–200 bc : Classic 200 bc –900 ad and Post‐classic, 900 bc –1521). Another primordial idea of origin, involving indigenous peoples, is the myth of descent, the mestizo myth, the idealized union between male European and female indigenousness, whose influence has guided nation‐building policies throughout the twentieth century (Glantz, ; Knight, ; Lomnitz‐Adler ; Paz, ; Vasconcelos, , Gutierrez, ). Peruvian intellectuals and nationalists were prone to reject and exclude the pre‐Hispanic past from the nationalist imaginary, notwithstanding the splendid Archaeology of the Inca state or Tahuantisuyo (twelfth to sixteenth centuries). Frequent indigenous rebellions in the sixteenth century were reasons for rejecting and suppressing indigenous cultural revivals or admiration for the past.…”
Section: Three Types Of Nationalismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…75 Similarly, Creole nationalisms in Latin America and the US South were based as much on white settlers maintaining property rights over conquered and enslaved peoples as about in dependence from their European-born rulers for whites born in the Western Hemisphere. 76 Second, the idea of the nation as "one and indivisible" led to oppression of internal minority nations, minority political views, and to cultural assimilation. Post-Revolution France waged a war against its many languages, disparagingly called patois, which the state considered "remnants of the barbarism of past ages."…”
Section: The Contradictory Legacy Of Civic Nationalismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since the mid-1980s, the primarily U.S.-educated elite in Mexico, led by Presidents Miguel de la Madrid (1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988), Carlos Salinas (1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994), and Ernesto Zedillo (1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000), has dropped the historic anti-U.S. narrative of preceding governments and adopted a modernist narrative stressing Mexico's openness to the world. On Mexico's historic anti-Americanism see Basave (1992), Knight (1994), Smith (1996), and Turner (1968). This dramatic modulation rang particularly loud during the pro-NAFTA campaign in the early 1990s when the Salinas administration heralded a new era in the country's relationship with the United States, one free of the weight of nationalism and based on a new period of mutual respect.2 Supported at every turn by the U.S. government, national, and foreign business interests, and a giant lobbying apparatus, the ruling elite dismissed once official anti-American sentiments and postures as decidedly anachronistic.…”
Section: Vey Analyses Bymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The use of the male figure to represent the United States speaks to a gendered view of power, while the fact that the symbols tend to refer to the U.S. government, as opposed to the American people, lends support to the conclusions of Alan Knight (1994) and Turner (1968) that Mexicans are not necessarily xenophobic or negative toward the Americans, but rather directs anger or frustration toward the U.S. government. In some ways, the images reinforce the themes stressed earlier, while in other cases they add other dimensions or points of contrast.…”
Section: Closely Tied To This Questioning Of Us Intentions Is a Thimentioning
confidence: 99%