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Counting Chinese People in a Catholic Country: Religious Difference, Racial Discrimination, and the 1930 Mexican Population Census

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2019

Kif Augustine-Adams
Kif Augustine-Adams*
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On May 15, 1930, in the small border town of Naco, Sonora, census enumerator Miguel Robles started to count. When he finished walking his assigned portions of Calle Hidalgo, Avenida Independencia, and Calle Morelos, he had enumerated 143 individuals, each of whom answered the single question regarding religious identity the same way: Catholic. A block over, a carpenter named Ignacio Ledgard left his tools for the day to canvas his own neighborhood, counting 252 individuals, including his own family. They also all identified as Catholic, except for two Chinese men with no religion.

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The Americas , Volume 76 , Issue 4 , October 2019 , pp. 607 - 640
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The author thanks the following for their support of this project: the anonymous reviewers of the article, Brigham Young University Law School for research funding, and the colleagues and friends who read drafts or offered feedback, especially participants in the 2013 legal history workshop “New Worlds of Faith: Religion and Law in Historical Perspective, 1500–2000.”

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30. Secretaría de la Economía Nacional, Dirección de los Censos, Instrucciones para empadronadores, jefes de manzana, de sección, de cuartel y de agencias censales (Mexico City: Departamento de la Estadística Nacional, 1930), 24; Secretaría de la Economía Nacional, Dirección de los Censos, Instrucciones generales para la ejecución de los censos de población y agrícola ganadero, 15 de mayo de 1930 (Mexico City: Departamento de la Estadística Nacional, 1930), 25. Both pamphlets are archived at Centro de Información, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática, Ciudad de México (Balderas), leg. 2046. Both pamphlets instruct the enumerator with the same language: “Religión – Se escribe en la columna 33 el nombre de la religión que el empadronado declara como suya. Si se trata de niños, se anotará la que indiquen sus padres o la persona de quien depende.”

31. 1895 Mexico Population census form, https://www.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/programas/ccpv/1895/doc/1895_c.pdf; 1900 Mexico Population census form, https://www.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/programas/ccpv/1900/doc/1900_c.pdf. The INEGI has not posted the 1910 census boleta on its website but describes it as generally the same as the two previous census forms. See Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Características del censo, https://www.inegi.org.mx/programas/ccpv/1910/default.html. All links accessed August 6, 2019.

32. For Sonora, see Secretaria de Agricultura y Fomento, Dirección de Estadística [hereafter SAF/DE], División Territorial Estados Unidos Mexicanos correspondiente Censo de 1910, Estado de Sonora (Mexico City: Oficina Impresora de la Secretaria de Hacienda, 1918) 8, http://internet.contenidos.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/Productos/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/integracion/pais/divi_terri/702825001778.pdf. For Tabasco, see SAF/DE, División Territorial …Censo de 1910, Estado de Tabasco (Mexico City: Oficina Impresora de la Secretaria de Hacienda, 1918) 8, http://internet.contenidos.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/Productos/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/integracion/pais/divi_terri/702825001779.pdf. Both accessed August 6, 2019.

33. For Nuevo León, see SAF/DE, División Territorial … Censo de 1910, Estado de Nuevo León (Mexico City, Oficina Impresora de la Secretaria de Hacienda, 1918) 8, http://internet.contenidos.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/Productos/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/integracion/pais/divi_terri/702825001771.pdf. For Chiapas, see SAF/DE, División Territorial … Censo de 1910, Estado de Chiapas (Mexico City: Oficina Impresora de la Secretaria de Hacienda, 1913) 8, http://internet.contenidos.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/Productos/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/integracion/pais/divi_terri/702825001758.pdf. Both accessed August 6, 2019.

34. Gutiérrez Zúñiga and de la Torre Castellanos, “Census Data is Never Enough,” 247–261. See also Renée de la Torre Castellanos and Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga, “La religión en el censo: recurso para la construcción de una cultura de pluralidad religiosa en México,” Revista Cultura y Religión 8:2 (July-December. 2014): 166–196.

35. See for example Cornille, Catherine, “Introduction: The Dynamics of Multiple Belonging,” in Many Mansions? Multiple Religious Belonging and Christian Identity, Cornille, Catherine, ed. (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2002), 1–6Google Scholar; Phan, Peter C., Being Religious Interreligiously: Asian Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2004), 62Google Scholar (noting that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam “consider themselves not only mutually incompatible but also irreconcilable with any other religion whatsoever, so that ‘conversion’ to any of them is often celebrated with an external ritual signaling a total abjuration of all previous religious allegiances. Not so with most other religions, particularly in Asia. In Asian countries such as China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, multiple religious belonging is the rule rather than the exception, at least on the popular level.”); Kitagawa, Joseph M., “Buddhism and Asian Politics,” Asian Survey 2:5 (July 1962): 1–11CrossRefGoogle Scholar (noting that “One of the significant characteristics of this culturally oriented phase of Buddhism [from the tenth to the nineteenth century] is that it rarely demanded an ‘either/or decision’ from peoples of non-Buddhist background. When Buddhism entered a new area, it usually presented itself more as a ‘supplement’ than as a ‘contestant’ to existing religions and cultures.”).

36. John B. Cobb, Jr., “Multiple Religious Belonging and Reconciliation,” in Many Mansions, Cornille, ed., 20–28, 20.

37. 1930 Census, Ancestry.com, Sonora, Naco, Naco, image 41, lines 32–37.

38. See for example Tien, Hung-Mao and Liu, Bocheng, Government and Politics in Kuomintang China, 1927–1937 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1972)Google Scholar.

39. Chang, Chino, 136–146.

40. 1930 Census, Ancestry.com, Sonora, Hermosillo, Hermosillo, image 239, line 72.

41. 1930 Census, Ancestry.com, Sonora, Cajeme, Cocorit, image 10, line 59.

42. 1930 Census, Ancestry.com, Sonora, Guaymas, Guaymas, image 166, lines 1, 7–11, 14–22.

43. See Masonic Information Center, “Statement on Freemasonry and Religion,” September 1998, http://www.msana.com/religion.asp, accessed August 6, 2019.

44. Juan L. Paliza to Tomás Wang and Guadalupe Chin, published on October 31, 1924, in the newspaper El Correo de la Tarde (Mazatlán, Sinaloa), in José Ángel Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora (Mexico City: n.p., 1932), 319.

45. José María Tapia and Marino Soni to the director of El Universal, June 1, 1931, reprinted in Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora, 322.

46. To create the database for the Chinese population in Sonora from which Tables 1, 2, and 3 derive, my research assistants and I reviewed all the individual census forms from the 1930 Mexican census for the state of Sonora. The individual census forms are available online for free through FamilySearch.org and by fee-for-service through Ancestry.com. One person transcribed the information for households that listed at least one person as born in China, of Chinese nationality, or former Chinese nationality; another person reviewed entries. Likewise, we spot-checked individuals and families against the entries in FamilySearch.org. The data analysis conducted for this project involved only those individuals listed as born in China, of Chinese nationality, or formerly of Chinese nationality, rather than the households in which they lived.

47. 1930 Census, Ancestry.com, Sonora, Bacoachi, Mututicachi, image 2, lines 68–77.

48. Secretaria de la Economía Nacional, Dirección General de Estadística, Quinto censo de población, 15 de mayo de 1930, Estado de Sonora, (Mexico City: Departamento de la Estadística Nacional, 1934); Cuadro VII, Población Clasificada por Sexos, Censos de 1900, 1910, 1921, 1930, 16; Cuadro VIII, Población de los Municipios Clasificada por Sexos, 17; Cuadro IX, Población de los Municipios Clasificada por Sexos, 18–79; Cuadro XVII, Alfabetismo de la Población de Diez Años o Más, 87–102.

49. Quinto censo … Sonora, Cuadro XXXVII, Población Clasificada según el Credo Religioso, 123.

50. Quinto censo … Sonora, Cuadro XXXVII, Población Clasificada según el Credo Religioso, 123; Cuadro XIX, Población Nacional y Extranjera, Clasificada por Ocupaciones y Sexo, 105; Cuadro XXXI, Jefes de Familia Nacionales y Extranjeros Que Poseen Bienes Raíces, 117. See for example Secretaría de la Cultura, Diario de los debates del Congreso Constitutyente, 1916–1917, t. III (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de las Revoluciones de México, 2016), 51–68, 147–175. These debates centered on the meaning of Article 30(1) of the 1917 Constitution, regarding citizenship by birth or by naturalization.

51. Secretaria de la Economía Nacional, Dirección General de Estadística, Relación de los ejemplos para empadronar los habitantes de un poblado urbano, contenidos en la boleta I, (Mexico City: Departamento de la Estadística Nacional, 1930), archived at Centro de Información, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática, Ciudad de México (Balderas), leg. 2046.

52. Relación de los ejemplos, lines 2–8, 14, 15, 18.

53. Relación de los ejemplos, lines 1, 9–10, 11–13, 17, 19, 24.

54. 1930 Census, Ancestry.com, Sonora, Nogales, Nogales, image 203, line 6 (Arsenio Espinosa); line 14 (Joaquín Silva). 1930 Census, Ancestry.com, Sonora, Cananea, Naco, image 29, line 16 (Gelasio Joel Cejudo y Carbajal); image 36, line 8 (Pedro Soto); image 42, line 65 (Octavio Duplat); image 51, line 26 (Francisco Cuevas). 1930 Census, Ancestry.com, Sonora, Hermosillo, Hermosillo, image 29, line 9 (Gontran Noble); image 43, line 21 (Casimiro Benard).

55. Sonora, Ley número 31, December 13, 1923; Sonora, Secretario de Gobierno, Circular número 278, October 7, 1930, reprinted in Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora, 55.

56. To identify persons registered as Chinese nationals living in Sonora after the 1931–32 expulsion, I searched in the online database for the Archivo General de la Nación, http://www.agn.gob.mx/guiageneral/, accessed August 6, 2019. Entries in the Register of Foreigners (Registro de Extranjeros) for individual Chinese nationals are found at the following sublevels within the database: Instituciones Gubernamentales: época moderna y contemporánea/ Administración Pública Federal S. XX/ Secretaría de Gobernación Siglo XX/ Departamento de Migración. / Departamento de Migración. (201) / Chinos. The data for the 1940 census is found in Secretaría de la Economía Nacional, Dirección General de Estadística, Sexto censo de población, 1940: Sonora (Mexico City: Departamento de la Estadística, 1943) Población por Nacionalidad y Sexo and Población Extranjera que Adquirió Nacionalidad Mexicana, por Sexo, 21–22. The data for the 1930 Census is found in Quinto censo… Sonora, Cuadro XXII, Población Clasificada por Nacionalidad y Sexo, 108.

57. See for example Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora, 50–51 (describing Governor Francisco Elías's efforts to enforce Article 106 of the federal Law of Work and Social Foresight of March 31, 1919, and Sonoran state Laws 29 and 30); Circular Número 153, Sección de Gobernación, Hermosillo, Sonora, May 27, 1930, reprinted in Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora, 52–53 (ordering municipal presidents to strictly enforce a recently enacted sanitary code); and Gobierno del Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora, Dirección General de Salubridad Pública, Aviso a los Comerciantes, October 29, 1930, reprinted in Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora, 64–65 (limiting the products that could be sold in a single store).

58. Réñique, “Región, raza y nación,” 231–289. The allegations regarding Governor Rodolfo Calles's orders are set forth in various letters from US officials. See for example Lewis V. Boyle, American Consul, to the Secretary of State, Washington, DC, February 25, 1932, US National Archives, RG 59, M1370, 812.504/1273.

59. Quinto censo… Sonora, Cuadro XXXVII, Población Clasificada según el Credo Religioso, 123.

60. “A la Prensa Asociada de los Estados,” El Intruso, April 12, 1924, 1; “A la Prensa Asociada de los Estados,” El Intruso, July 16, 1931, 1. There is a gap from July 17, 1931, to July 1, 1933, in the issues of El Intruso available online through Cervantesvirtual.com. By July 1, 1933, the box no longer appeared on the front or any other page of El Intruso.

61. “A la Prensa Asociada de los Estados,” El Intruso, April 12, 1924, 1.

62. See for example, “Mueren tres hijos de Confucio misteriosamente,” El Intruso, December 13, 1925, 1; “La ley empieza a dominar en Mexicali, B.C.: los fumaderos de opio y casas de juego cerradas por orden del Gobernador Lugo,” El Tucsonense, March 8, 1922, 1 (describing Juan Chong as “a very rich Chinese man” and Charles Ming as “another wealthy son of Confucius”).

63. “La amarga realidad,” El Intruso, July 27, 1924, 2. See also “Un editorial de ‘el Fronterizo,’” El Intruso, April 17, 1924, 2 (referring to a “tailor, son of Confucius”).

64. “Un banquero chino se divierte,” El Intruso, July 17, 1924, 4.

65. “Discurso pronunciado en idioma ‘Confuso,’” El Intruso, November 25, 1925, 1.

66. “Quieren afuerza que los queiran,” El Intruso, December 15, 1925, 1.

67. “¡Atiza!” El Intruso, December 30, 1923, 3.

68. “Catecismo,” El Intruso, January 26, 1924, 2.

69. “Catecismo,” El Intruso, January 26, 1924, 2.

70. Zaratiel, “De mi libro en preparación. ‘Oro y Dolor,’” El Intruso, April 16, 1924, 2–3. Zaratiel offered fragments of his book draft “Gold and Pain” (Oro y Dolor). While there are some similarities between Zaratiel's book fragments and sections of José Ángel Espinoza's book El ejemplo de Sonora, it seems likely that they are two different people. Espinoza's virulent and very public anti-Chinese behavior would make the use of a pseudonym to cloak his identity uncharacteristic.

71. J. M. Abril, “El problema chino,” El Intruso, April 16, 1924, 4.

72. P. C. González, “Al pueblo le toca obrar,” El Intruso, May 16, 1924, 2.

73. ‘Un Observador,’ “Los Judas de la patria: colaboración esp. para ‘El Intruso,’” El Intruso, May 29, 1925, 3–4.

74. “Los chinos y sus cómplices,” El Intruso, December 5, 1925, 2–3.

75. E. S. Romero, “Al pueblo de Sonora y a la República en general,” El Intruso, April 20, 1924, 2–3.

76. “Comentarios,” El Intruso, April 23, 1924, 2.

77. “Notas Diversas,” El Intruso, December 17, 1924, 3.

78. Grace Peña Delgado described José Ángel Espinoza as one of the three “most famous people in Sonora” in the mid 1920s, due to his notorious leadership in the anti-Chinese campaigns. Peña Delgado, Making the Chinese Mexican, 158, 169. Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho deemed Espinoza a “key Sonoran anti-Chinese public intellectual,” noting his election as a state congressional representative. Schiavone Camacho, Chinese Mexicans, 51.

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82. My thanks to Christopher Waldrep for suggesting this idea.

83. Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora, 84, 85. In Nahum 1:2, Jehovah's wrath can hardly be contained for he “is jealous, and … revengeth, and is furious.” In Ezekiel 25:17, God acts directly and violently “And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.”

84. Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora, 204–205.

85. Watson, James L., “Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of T'ien Hou (“Empress of Heaven”) Along the South China Coast, 960–1960,” in Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, Johnson, David, Nathan, Andrew, and Rawski, Evelyn, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985) 292–324Google Scholar, esp. 298.

86. Watson, “Standardizing the Gods,” 298.

87. Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora, 204–205. Espinoza implies, but does not explicitly say, that the gods preferred the shedding of human blood as a sacrifice.

88. See for example Wilson, Thomas A., “Sacrifice and the Imperial Cult of Confucius,” History of Religions 41:3 (2002): 251–287CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

89. Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora, 195.

90. 1930 Census, Sonora, Agua Prieta, Agua Prieta, image 16, lines 10-16 (Chin family) and image 49, lines 67–72 (Chon family).

91. Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora, 30.

92. Espinoza, El ejemplo de Sonora, 111.