Forging Mixtec Identity in the Mexican Metropolis: Race, Indigenismo and Mixtec Migrant Associations in Mexico City, 1940−70

This article presents a social history of the Coalición de los Pueblos Mixtecos Oaxaqueños (Coalition of Mixtec Oaxacan Communities, CPMO), a grouping of mutual-aid associations formed by Indigenous migrants in Mexico City during the middle of the twentieth century. It draws on the coalition's...

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Published in:Journal of Latin American studies 2022-02, Vol.54 (1), p.55-77
Main Author: Yee, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
17th century
20th century
Cities
Coalitions
Collaboration
Cultural identity
Ethnic identity
Federal government
Immigration
Indigenous peoples
Migrants
Migration
Modernization
Population
Race
Roads & highways
Social history
Towns
Transnationalism
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Summary:This article presents a social history of the Coalición de los Pueblos Mixtecos Oaxaqueños (Coalition of Mixtec Oaxacan Communities, CPMO), a grouping of mutual-aid associations formed by Indigenous migrants in Mexico City during the middle of the twentieth century. It draws on the coalition's archives to demonstrate how years of migration to Mexico City eroded traditional inter-village conflicts and created the conditions for a broader ethnic identity among Mixtec migrants in the capital. In addition, the coalition's collaboration with the federal government's Instituto Nacional Indigenista (National Indigenous Institute, INI) challenges common depictions of Indigeneity and modernisation as being inherently antagonistic with one another. The coalition's collaboration with the INI led its members to more consciously and visibly identify with their Indigenous roots; they had to become more Indigenous in order to become more modern.
ISSN:0022-216X
1469-767X
DOI:10.1017/S0022216X21000985