Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
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This article examines local expressions of race in San Nicolás in relation to Mexico’s national ideology of mestizaje (race mixing), which excludes blackness but is foundational to Mexican racial identities.
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Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico’s Costa Chica Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Published online: 2015-10-05 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2015.1094873 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom San Nicolás Tolentino, Guerrero, Mexico, is a ‘mixed’ black-Indian agricultural community on the coastal belt of Mexico’s…
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Envisioning the United States in the Latin American myth of ‘racial democracy mestizaje’ Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Published online 2016-04-12 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2016.1170953 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Transnational comparison is relevant both to how racial hierarchy is obscured and elucidated. This Essay traces how…