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http://cide.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1011/742| The tones of democratic challenges skin color and race in Mexico | |
| Rosario Aguilar | |
| Acceso Abierto | |
| Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas | |
| Human skin color -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- Statistics | |
| This paper explores people’s political attitudes mediated by their perceived skin tone and their own racial identification in Mexico. As a young democracy Mexico’s political institutions face many challenges while in the process of democratic consolidation. One of those challenges is the incorporation of every person into the democratic process. Sometimes it is easier to identify possible excluded groups, but sometimes it is harder to do so. In this paper I look at whether people’s feeling of representation and inclusion are mediated by their skin tone and/or their racial appearance. In other words, I look at whether people are excluded from the political process because of their phenotypic appearance and/or racial identification in Mexico. Moreover, the paper tests the theories of Social Dominance Approach and System Justification Theory to explain phenotypic relations in Mexico. The data for this paper comes from the Latin American Public Opinion Project 2010 Mexico survey. This survey included measures of: representation, discrimination, skin tone, and racial self-identification. The paper shows that people’s skin tone can explain socioeconomic inequalities as well as support for different types of political participation and feelings of representation. It also finds partial, but not full support, for the Social Dominance Approach and System Justification Theory showing the need to build a different theoretical framework to explain the political, social, and economic consequences of phenotypic relations in Mexico. | |
| Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. | |
| 2011 | |
| Documento de trabajo | |
| Inglés | |
| Estudiantes Investigadores | |
| CIENCIAS SOCIALES | |
| Versión publicada | |
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| Aparece en las colecciones: | Divisón de Estudios Políticos, Documentos de Trabajo |
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