{"id":25204,"date":"2012-09-05T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25204"},"modified":"2012-09-05T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:42:48","slug":"latin-america-and-mixed-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25204","title":{"rendered":"Latin America and mixed heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprisma.co.uk\/2012\/08\/27\/latin-america-and-mixed-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Latin America and mixed heritage<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprisma.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Prisma: The Multicultural Newspaper<\/a><br \/>\nWestwood Hill, London, United Kingdom<br \/>\n2012-08-27<\/p>\n<p><strong>Claudio Chipana<\/strong> (Translated by Viv Griffiths)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026we are neither Indian, nor European, but a species lying somewhere in between the legitimate owners of the land and the Spanish usurpers\u2026\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simon_Bolivar\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Bolivar<\/a> (Letter from Jamaica).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People of mixed heritage, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizo\" target=\"_blank\">mestizos<\/a><\/em>, are a challenge to racial purity and the idea of a monolithic nation. The mixing of race is a cultural as well as racial process that began from the moment the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conquistador\" target=\"_blank\">Conquistadors<\/a> arrived in the Americas in the 16th Century. The historian, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garcilaso_de_la_Vega_(El_Inca)\" target=\"_blank\">Inca Garcilazo de la Vega<\/a>, is considered to be the first Peruvian of mestizo. But, why Garcilazo and not the Indian historian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Felipe_Guaman_Poma_de_Ayala\" target=\"_blank\">Guaman Poma<\/a>?<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Mestizos<\/em> are neither Hispanic nor indigenous and have been viewed both negatively and positively depending on their social class and ideology. Over time, being mestizo has developed into a form of identity for those living on the Latin American continent, and a way of staking a claim for themselves and forging ahead in the process of transculturation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;It is still common for Latin Americans to identify themselves as being <em>mestizo<\/em>. This raises the question, if a person considers themselves mestizo, does this exclude them from identifying themselves as Latin American? At the same time, it should be acknowledged that there is a significant indigenous population resistant to any kind of homogenisation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprisma.co.uk\/2012\/08\/27\/latin-america-and-mixed-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latin America and mixed heritage The Prisma: The Multicultural Newspaper Westwood Hill, London, United Kingdom 2012-08-27 Claudio Chipana (Translated by Viv Griffiths) \u201c\u2026we are neither Indian, nor European, but a species lying somewhere in between the legitimate owners of the land and the Spanish usurpers\u2026\u201d Simon Bolivar (Letter from Jamaica). People of mixed heritage, mestizos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,8,394,10],"tags":[11756,11755,11754,11757],"class_list":["post-25204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-claudio-chipana","tag-the-prisma","tag-the-prisma-the-multicultural-newspaper","tag-viv-griffiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}