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Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico

, 2017
Ben Vinson
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Ambivalent Mestizaje

Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2021
This essay examines the complex legacy of Chicanx encounters with the enduring sixteenth-century “idea of Europe”: that is, Europe as an epistemic category signifying the modern “civilized” Western world. Chicanx intellectuals contest the presumption that Europe is the enlightened antithesis to Mesoamerica. But Europe has always occupied a vexed status
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The reconfiguration of mestizaje and whiteness in the diaspora

Critique of Anthropology
As a light-skinned mestiza Mexican woman, I have enjoyed the privileges of ‘whiteness’ in Latin America. In this article, I talk about how my whiteness has helped me in the development of my own fieldwork with Latin American migrants in London, that is ...
A. P. Gutiérrez Garza
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‘Significant indeterminacy’ in Mexico’s racial identities: Vernacular dynamics of race identification in the era of the ideology of mestizaje (1940s–1950s)

Critique of Anthropology
In Mexico and other Latin American countries, the analysis of racism has often followed a ‘strategic essentialism’ that mobilises absolutist languages of race, in order to make inequalities visible.
Paula López Caballero
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(De)Ciphering Mestizaje:

2023
In Chapter 4, Néstor Medina tackles the experience of mestizaje, historic and complex experiences of mixture (including biological, racial, and cultural). Mestizaje serves as an important locus theologicus for Latino/a theologies. Medina explores the multivalent and complex nature of mestizaje and demonstrates its anthropological value with respect to ...
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Unpacking the “fluidity” of Mestizaje: how anti-indigenous and anti-black racism determine social relations and economic destinations of Mestizos

Ethnic and Racial Studies
In this paper, we examine the centrality of mestizo people in the Mexican national political and social project of mestizaje. We argue that mestizos are far from homogenous, and that exploring their socio-economic and cultural differences sheds light on ...
Emiko Saldívar, Erika Arenas, Cecile Binmoeller   +2 more
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Whiteness, Mestizaje, and social equity

Administrative Theory & Praxis
This article discusses the relationship between Whiteness and Mestizaje–the idea of a ‘race made of the mixture of other races’–in the context of Mexican public administration.
Felipe Blanco
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Resignificar el mestizaje tierra adentro: Aguascalientes, Nueva Galicia, siglos XVII y XVIII

Uno de los debates más atractivos en la historiografía latinoamericanista tiene que ver con el concepto de mestizaje. Para algunos historiadores y antropólogos se trata de un “mito”, de una “leyenda” o de una “máscara” que oculta la persistencia de la ...
Víctor Manuel González Esparza
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Militarized Mestizajes

2021
Abstract Chapter 5 focuses on how the War on Terror’s permutations of Latina/o war literature, theater, television, film, and popular music present methodological and political challenges to conventional understandings of Latina/o relationships to power as inherently oppositional to capitalism and US imperialism.
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The Chilean exception: racial homogeneity, mestizaje and eugenic nationalism

Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies, 2019
Scholarship on race in Latin America has overwhelmingly characterized racial mixture as a unique feature of the political and social landscape there. Studies of eugenics in Latin America especially highlight the relative pragmatism regarding race mixing ...
S. Walsh
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