The story of the Mexican nation, like that of many modern nations, involves the development of a national identity based on a manufactured ethnicity. A national community is produced when individuals project themselves onto, and recognize themselves in, a common national narrative that appears to ...
Meet the activists, artists, and ordinary people who are finding ways to strengthen community bonds during the pandemic.
Time flies when Mr. Giralt devotes himself to his work. He shared two most unforgettable moments during his six-year tenure in Guangzhou. One was the Mexican Independence Day celebration at the Consulate in 2019 which has been subsequently canceled due to the pandemic. In those days, the Mexic...
Growing up in a restaurant family, Jimenez was always surrounded by the hustle and bustle of the back of the house. But like any other Mexican restaurant in the area, the tortillas that came out of her family’s business were factory-bought fromLa Michoacana Tortilla Bakery...
Since 2001, the Mexican constitution has provided indigenous groups the right to self-determination. In municipalities like Aldama, local people can decide “their spe-cific forms of social organization; [and] implement their own regulatory systems in the regulation and resolution of internal confli...
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and in a society where being an “indian” puts you at the bottom of the social ladder, that is not good. So for decades, as people leave the communities, they leave behind their ancestral knowledge of how to weave, embroidered and the social identity that the Mexican indigenous textiles ...
One of the most important elements in Mexican society is family. It’s common to see three,or more, generations sharing one residence. The status of the individual is strongly predetermined by the status of their immediate and extended family. Parents and grandparents are given a high degree of...
“I really believe that when you look at the power structure that’s what I ran into in South Dakota. I always talked about going back and helping my people. But the stereotype is that we’re primitive people and one of the things we learn is that we have people who want to come in...
“Unfortunately, we always made the assumption that they were all Mexican, they were all Spanish-speaking and we could get the message to them about building trust, about working with us, in Spanish”** According to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 15,000 - 19,000 indigenous speakers...