Aspects of Violence in Inter-ethnic Relations and Racism in Mexico City
This paper offers an analysis of violence and racism in the light of relations between Indians and Metis in Mexico. The starting point of the analysis is symbolic violence, considered as normal in the cultural construct of the nation and acted out in the tendency to criminalize indigenous peoples. Specific aspects of violence, symbolic or otherwise, are presented in this paper to illustrate what is emerging from inter-ethnic relations in Mexico City.