The Historiography on social inequality in Mexico and the United States: race versus class

• Autores: Silke Hensel
• Localización: Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas = Anuario de Historia de América Latina ( JbLA ), ISSN-e 2194-3680, Nº. 36, 1999, págs. 325-348
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay focuses on the historiography of social inequality in Mexico and the United States. For both countries race and class are central concepts. While Mexican historiography is mainly concemed with the question of when the category of class became more important than race, US historiography concentrates to a large extent on the question of how race influenced the social status. Only recently has the concept of race itself come into better focus, a development which would have happened earlier had more scholarly interactions taken place between Latin American and US researchers.