Resumen

GARCIA ROJAS, Gerardo. Nation, language and race. The configuration of the “indigenous problem” in 19th-Century Mexico. Cuicuilco. Rev. cienc. antropol. [online]. 2021, vol.28, n.82, pp.169-190.  Epub 15-Ago-2022. ISSN 2448-8488.

This article analyzes the configuration of the “indigenous problem” as a political and intellectual concern in the second half of the 19th Century in Mexico. The said denomination operated both in the recognition of specific bodies and behaviors, as well as in the expression of a public problem that occupied the agendas of scientists, politicians and educators. We propose an intellectual history regarding one of the different ways in which the term ‘indigenous’ has been identified by way of a study of three intellectual spaces, constituted respectively by educators from the liberal tradition, by “racialist” doctors and scientists, as well as from an emerging group known as “indianistas.”

Palabras llave : Indigenous problem; race; language; education; nation.