Aragon, Margarita (2014) The difference that ‘one drop’ makes: Mexican and African Americans, mixedness and racial categorisation in the early twentieth century. Subjectivity 7 (1), pp. 18-36. ISSN 1755-6341.
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Abstract
Using archival materials, I will examine how the mixed ancestry of African and Mexican Americans was treated, both in law and discourse, in distinctly contrasting ways in the early 20th century. I will argue that black and Mexican subjects were positioned in qualitatively different ways in relation to whiteness. Furthermore, the singular treatment of ‘black blood’ as a social toxin, a construction emerging within the specific circumstances of American slavery, also informed the subjective positioning of Mexicans, as well as shaping some Mexican Americans’ responses to racism.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Mixedness, hybridity, Mexican-Americans, African-Americans |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Margarita Aragon |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2022 11:05 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 18:14 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/46916 |
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