Mexican Long-LivingMestizophiliaversus a Democracy Open to Diversity

This analytical essay approaches the history of the Mexican state’s ideologies and practices of ethnic and racial discrimination from three perspectives: a consideration of the different phases of mestizophilia between Independence and contemporary times; thoughts on the negative consequences of mestizophilia on contemporary Mexican migration policies, which are often xenophobic and racist in character; and a critique of the traditional opponents to indigenismo that seeks to explain why the vast majority of opponents have not highlighted the antidemocratic and the racist aspects of this ideology and this policy.