CONTINUITIES IN THE INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL MEXICAN DISCOURSE ON THE INDIGENOUS GROUPS IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY.

Abstract

This article analyzes the content of the public, political and intellectual
discourse, on the indigenous groups along the history of México an
independent country to the 2000. In this work we propose that the
assignment of indigenous identities across the public speech answers to the
needs of self perception, self identification and the construction of the State.
This State creates ethnic identities according to the historical moment, aiming
to construct the national project. In this present investigation there will be
four types of discourse analyzed through the nineteenth and twentieth
century, in which substantial changes are made in the rhetoric of the national
project, and when also variations in the way of perceiving, defining and
describing indigenous groups occurred. In spite of the assumed changes,
through the research, it is acknowledge that certain continuities prevail and
remain.