{"id":33449,"date":"2013-10-16T03:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T03:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33449"},"modified":"2013-11-12T17:35:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:35:34","slug":"race-and-justice-in-transnational-perspective-from-the-conservation-of-races-to-the-cosmic-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33449","title":{"rendered":"Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “From the Conservation of Races to the Cosmic Race”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “From the Conservation of Races to the Cosmic Race”<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective
\nUniversity of California, Merced
\nCalifornia Room
\n5200 North Lake Rd.
\nMerced, California 95343
\n2013-10-23, 10:30 PDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n

Juliet Hooker<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Government
\nUniversity of Texas, Austin<\/em><\/p>\n

The Mexican philosopher Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos<\/a> [1882-1959] and the African American political thinker W.E.B. DuBois<\/a> [1868-1963] are viewed as having developed\u00a0conceptions of race and racial identity that are\u00a0quintessentially Latin American and U.S. American respectively. \u00a0Vasconcelos is one of Latin America\u2019s foremost advocates of mestizaje<\/a><\/em>; his notion of the Cosmic Race is generally viewed as articulating a more complex approach to race that sought to dismantle specific racial group identities and reformulate hybrid subjectivities. This approach is often contrasted to the binary, static conceptions of race developed in the U.S., including by African-American thinkers. This paper analyzes this characterization of Latin American and African American political thought by comparing Vasconcelos and DuBois\u2019 arguments about race, especially racial identity. In particular, I will analyze DuBois\u2019 discussion of racial mixing in the U.S. and the motivations behind Vasconcelos\u2019 account of mestizaje<\/em> in order to complicate the comparison between supposedly static, biologically grounded accounts of race and flexible notions of race that are able to acknowledge processes of racial mixing.<\/strong>\u00a0 The aim of this\u00a0juxtaposition\u00a0is to stage a hemispheric dialogue about race between these two towering American\u00a0pensadores<\/em>,\u00a0in order to show the surprising points of convergence and divergence between U.S. and Latin American ideas about race.<\/p>\n

The seminar series “Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective” is organized by Tanya Golash-Boza<\/a>, Nigel Hatton<\/a>, and David Torres-Rouff<\/a>. The event is co-sponsored by the UC Center for New Racial Studies, Sociology, and SSHA.<\/em><\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “From the Conservation of Races to the Cosmic Race” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-23, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Juliet Hooker, Associate Professor of Government University of Texas, Austin The Mexican philosopher Jos\u00e9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1196,13,8,26,20],"tags":[15643,1868,3183,15642,15640,8656,15641,1306],"class_list":["post-33449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-david-torres-rouff","tag-jose-vasconcelos","tag-juliet-hooker","tag-nigel-hatton","tag-race-and-justice-in-transnational-perspective","tag-tanya-golash-boza","tag-university-of-california-at-merced","tag-w-e-b-dubois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33449","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=33449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}