Abstract

CARDENAS GARCIA, Nicolás. The Expulsion of the Chinese Immigrants from Sinaloa (1919-1935). A Racist Movement in Post-Revolutionary Mexico. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2021, n.61, pp.213-245.  Epub Jan 31, 2022. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2021.61.75757.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze a grassroots movement against the Chinese immigrants in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, since its attempts to weaken and segregate them until demanding their expulsion on the pretext that they exerted unfair competition against local workers and small businessmen, as well as to prevent the degeneration of the Mexican race. The main argument of this article is that the leaders of this movement felt marginalized from the distribution and exercise of the post-revolutionary political power, but at the same time they felt protected by the broad ideological-symbolic umbrella that the revolutionaries had created to legitimize their own authority. The leaders of the anti-Chinese movement not only wanted to participate in exercising power, but to make decision about who had the right to be a part of the new national project, so they combined racism with the prevailing nationalist ideology in their program and practice.

Keywords : Chinese immigration; expulsion of Chinese immigrants; racist movement; history of Sinaloa; Mexican nationalism.

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