La raza cosmica essentialized mestizaje because V was too close to the essentialism championed by cientificos of the Porfiriato. Being modern meant erasing the Indigenous and Europeanizing Mexicans. Vasconcelos posits the midway salvage point of celebrating mestizaje.

Mexicans also have family trees in communities that co-inhabited bioregions NORTH of the border. It was not the border that crossed us but the violence of Anglo settler colonialism. Enclosures drove dispossession on both sides. BTW Mexican Clan of the Navajo (Dine) Nation is the largest at 75,000+.

shades of Coltrane. love this