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- Title
La construcción y el peso del discurso racial en México. El caso de los jóvenes estudiantes en la ciudad de León, Guanajuato.
- Authors
Rea Campos, Carmen Rosa
- Abstract
This article attempts to respond to the following questions: 1) What is the weight of racial categories in day-to-day relations of young people in León? and, 2) What kind of racism exists in mestizo areas with little indigenous population? The study is done from a sociological point of view, conceptually distinguishing between racialism, racialization, and racism, and is based on surveys on racially discriminatory social representations and practices carried out in high schools in the municipality of León, Guanajuato. The results show the presence of a dual discourse: equality versus othering. It also uncovers the predominance of racializing language that ties together young people’s relations and social representations. In this context, racism is subtle; it becomes explicit when a possible close relationship projects a break in the social distinction.
- Subjects
GUANAJUATO (Mexico); MEXICO; INDIGENOUS peoples of Mexico; STUDENTS; RACISM; RACE relations; YOUTH; RACIALIZATION; SOCIAL conditions of Indigenous peoples of the Americas; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Sociológica, 2017, Vol 32, Issue 91, p1
- ISSN
0187-0173
- Publication type
Article