Historia patria and the construction of the mestizo nation in Porfirian Mexico: the Fiestas del Centenario, 1910

• Garner, Paul ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Leeds

     University of Leeds

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, ISSN-e 1469-9524, ISSN 1470-1847, Vol. 22, Nº. 1, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Sujetos frágiles: the fragility of the liberal subject in the modern Hispanic world), págs. 41-53
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  • My contribution to the Special Edition seeks to examine two key aspects of the ideological underpinnings and cultural presumptions of the liberal project of state- and nation-building as interpreted by the elective dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz in Mexico (1876–80, 1884–1911), and its specific manifestation in the commemorative Fiestas del Centenario – the official celebration of the first centenary of Mexican independence from Spain – in September 1910. The article focuses, first, on the manifestation of a triumphalist liberal version of historia patria, and, second, on the projection of a distinct mestizo identity for Mexico’s ethnically diverse citizenship as key components in the construction of Mexican national identity.