Abstract

CASTILLO RAMIREZ, Guillermo. Integration, Miscegenation and Nationalism in Revolutionary Mexico. Manuel Gamio's Forjando Patria: Subordinating Diversity to the Search for Unity. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2014, vol.59, n.221, pp.175-199. ISSN 0185-1918.

This paper analyzes the integration program in Manuel Gamio's Forjando Patria as a national project arising in the historical context of revolutionary Mexico, where cultural diversity is conditional on the idea of unity. Firstly, we trace the relationship of the integration program with its history, the concepts of "mestizaje" and "mestizo" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Secondly, we analyze the influence of some European models of nationality and socio-cultural change on Gamio's integrationism, in the context of socio-ethnic heterogeneity in Mexico during 1916. Finally, we highlight the links between the concepts of cultural diversity become visible, nation and nationalism in this author's work.

Keywords : nation; nationalism; Manuel Gamio; cultural diversity; indigenous; miscegenation.