De cómo hablamos de los indígenas los mexicanos (no indégenas) en el México actual

Abstract

During the last years, Mexican Indians have started out to emerge from their ancestral condition of ?political invisibility? as they have recuperated their own voice, introducing social, political, and juridical languages about ethnic differences. Non-Indian interlocutors, however, receive these new languages through a framework based on interpretative premises and political categories inherited from the X I X Century. This article reviews the political arguments maintained by contemporary half-caste (mestizo) and Creole (criollo) people about the ?indigenous issue?, revealing the nineteenth- century grounds underpinning the topics and terminology as well as the political and semantic keys of such arguments.