{"id":34946,"date":"2013-12-05T19:26:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T19:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34946"},"modified":"2013-12-05T19:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T19:26:25","slug":"the-symbolics-of-blood-mestizaje-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34946","title":{"rendered":"The symbolics of blood: Mestizaje in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/1070289X.1997.9962576\" target=\"_blank\">The symbolics of blood: Mestizaje in the Americas<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/gide20\" target=\"_blank\">Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/gide20\/3\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 3, Issue 4, 1997<\/a> (Special Issue: Race and Place)<br \/>\npages 495-521<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/1070289X.1997.9962576\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/1070289X.1997.9962576<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.ucdavis.edu\/people\/casmith\" target=\"_blank\">Carol A. Smith<\/a><\/strong>, Professor Emerita of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\">Mestizaje<\/a><\/em>, a significant process of identity formation in Latin America based on presumed race mixture, rests on certain sustaining ideologies about race, class, gender, and sexuality that are specific to Latin America. This essay attempts a preliminary discussion of how <em>mestizaje<\/em> has affected marriage and gender relations in several Latin American regions as the marital\/kinship pattern, together with its sustaining ideologies, changed over time. Questions are asked about differences in beliefs held by different kinds of individuals (mestizos and \u201cwhites,\u201d lower classes and elites, women and men) about <em>mestizaje<\/em> and the sexual and\/or kinship relations appropriate between different races and classes. Examination of a few well documented historical cases suggests that what lower-class mestizos believe about race, class, gender, and sexuality involves resistance to as well as acceptance of elite beliefs about them. It appears that there are also significant differences in beliefs held by mestizo women and men about appropriate female and male sexuality, though we have less information about this.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/1070289X.1997.9962576\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The symbolics of blood: Mestizaje in the Americas Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 3, Issue 4, 1997 (Special Issue: Race and Place) pages 495-521 DOI: 10.1080\/1070289X.1997.9962576 Carol A. Smith, Professor Emerita of Anthropology University of California, Davis Mestizaje, a significant process of identity formation in Latin America based on presumed race mixture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,8],"tags":[16497,16498,13166],"class_list":["post-34946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","tag-carol-a-smith","tag-carol-smith","tag-identities-global-studies-in-culture-and-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34946","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=34946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}