Delegitimization of ethnic differences, “citizenization” and disempowerment of indigenous lands: notes on liberalism, indigenism and agrarian laws in Mexico and Brazil in the 1850s
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2012v4n8p68Keywords:
Natives, Disentitlement of indigenous lands, CitenizationAbstract
This study provides a reflection on disentitlement of indigenous lands in Brazil during the second half of the 19th Century through a comparative approach with the Mexican case in the same period. In the first part, “nationalization” and “citenization” of indigenous peoples are discussed as a process initially more imposed by state action than claimed by them. The second part addresses the problem of disentitlement of indigenous lands within the liberal outlook and agrarian laws of both countries. This study shows that disentitlement produced a dissociative pressure on indigenous communities, which reaffirmed and sped the policy on “nationalization” and “citenization” of natives.
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