De Aguascalientes a El Paso. La construcción de la identidad étnica entre anglos y mexicanos en la frontera
Keywords:
Agricultura, Ethnic relationships, Mexican, Anglo, Bordar, MexicoAbstract
In the American Southwest and along the U.S.-Mexico border, Anglos and Mexicans are often viewed as the quintessential "Others". This ethnographic study problematizes the Anglo-Mexican opposition with ethnographic data from interviews with a Mexican farmworker family and an Anglo farmerfamily ofthe El Paso Lower Valley. I argue that Anglo hegemony is not based exclusively on cultural separation but often involves hybridity (including "Mexicanization") and patron-client relations entailing "benevolent" paternalism. I show how the concept of Anglo is a contested identity constructed through interactions between Mexicans and Euroamericans. Through this study of border crossings in situations of asymmetrical power relations, I advocate a "complicit" anthropology that presents competing ethnicgroups in their full complexity rather than as stereotypes or caricatures of their "Others."
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