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The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950 This page intentionally left blank The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950 Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill © 2018 Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt All rights reserved Set in Espinosa Nova and Alegreya Sans by codeMantra Manufactured in the United States of America The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Cover illustration: Oscar S. Frías and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales. Mapa etnográfico de la República mexicana / [México, D.F.] UNAM: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, 1940. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra, author. Title: The science and politics of race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950 / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. Description: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017033407 | ISBN 9781469636399 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469636405 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469636412 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Science—Social aspects—Mexico. | Science—Social aspects—United States. | Race—Social aspects—Mexico. | Race— Social aspects—United States. | Minorities—Government policy— Mexico. | Minorities—Government policy—United States. | Policy scientists—Mexico. | Policy scientists—United States. | Social sciences—Philosophy—History—20th century. Classification: LCC Q175.52.M6 R67 2018 | DDC 306.4/50970904—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017033407 Para Héctor (For Hector) This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Liberalism, Race, Nation, Modernity Part I Science and Nation in an Age of Evolution and Eugenics, 1910–1934 17 1 Mexican Indigenismo and the International Fraternity of Science 29 2 Migration, U.S. Race Thinking, and Pan-American Anthropology 60 Part II Science and Nation in an Age of Modernization and Antiracist Populism, 1930–1950 89 3 From Cultural Pluralism to a Global Science of Acculturation in the United States 101 4 Cultural and Economic Evolution, Pluralism, and Categorization in Mexico 135 Conclusion 169 Race, Culture, and Class Notes 183 Bibliography 213 Index 237 This page intentionally left blank Figures 1. Table documenting indigenous language usage 150 2. Tables documenting production and wages 153 3. Ethnographic map of the Mexican republic, 1940 157 4. Lucio Mendieta y Núñez with ethnographic map of the Mexican republic 158 5. Facsimile of cropped photographs of Mazatecos from México indígena 160 6. Uncropped photographs of Mazatecos used in México indígena 161 7. Manuel Gamio’s classification of elements of material culture 162 8. Manuel Gamio’s methods of classification of material culture 163
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