Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the Humanities

After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country’s racially diverse population into one official mixed-race identity—the mestizo. This book shows that as part of this vision, the Mexican government believed it could modernize “primitive” Indigenous peoples through technology in the form of education, modern medicine, industrial agriculture...