Verdin, Azucena2022-08-252022-08-252021-09This is a post-print version of an article that is available at https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/fall-2021/eraceing-mexican-americans-why-denying-racial-indigeneity-constitutes-white-supremacy-family. Recommended citation: Verdín, A. (2021). E(race)ing Mexican Americans: Why denying racial indigeneity constitutes white supremacy in family science. NCFR Report. This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author’s permission.https://hdl.handle.net/11274/13947https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/fall-2021/eraceing-mexican-americans-why-denying-racial-indigeneity-constitutes-white-supremacy-familyThe indigeneity of Mexican Americans has been erased by double colonization and the construction of the Mexican Other by Anglo settler colonists. Reducing Mexicanness to an ethnicity is a practice that reproduces racism and White supremacy by rendering invisible the complexities of mestizaje and mestiza/o identity in Family Science. Critical mestizaje can deepen Mexican Americans’ awareness of Indigenous ancestry, which is a repudiation of the deficit narrative of Mexican as perpetual invader.en-USMexican American familiesIndigeneityRaceIdentityCritical mestizajeWhite supremacyPost-Print