Resistencia indígena y discursos racistas: una lectura biopolítica de los mayas yucatecos

• Main Author: Izaskun Álvarez Cuartero
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: University of Bologna 2012-06-01
• Series: Confluenze
• Subjects: Yucatan; Colonial development; Caste War; Indian slavery; Cuba
• Online Access: http://confluenze.unibo.it/article/view/3092

In this article I propose to analyse the history of Yucatec Maya people from a biopolitical perspective. I study two periods of great importance in Mayan history: first, during the colonial period, the politics of population control and the peculiar geography of Yucatan guide us to explain how the colony was settled there; while the second part discusses the lack of instability of Mayan Indians during Independence, the indigenous resistance that will eventually lead to the 1847 Caste War and its consequence: the sale of Mayan Indians as slaves to Cuba as an alternative to eliminate Indian rebels and to create an imagined nation of Yucatan.