Project of Indian integration in the scientific works of Andres Molina Enriquez

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the project of Indian integration and the creation of a single Mexican nation, created by the famous Mexican sociologist, lawyer and philosopher Andres Molina Enriquez in his work “The Great National Problems” (1909). In his main theoretical work, the author presents an extensive panorama of all social groups in Mexico, which he classified according to their race and level of cultural development. One of the central ideas of the study is to state that the mestizos represent progress and should take a leading position in the new post-revolutionary state. It should be noted that the work “Great National Problems” became a real manifesto of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1917), and its author was one of the authors of the 1917 Constitution, and in particular, Article 27, which defined the new agrarian system in the country.