{"id":36969,"date":"2014-08-05T14:52:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T14:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36969"},"modified":"2016-10-06T02:26:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T02:26:14","slug":"american-race-and-charismatic-license-finding-martin-de-porres-in-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36969","title":{"rendered":"American Race and Charismatic License: Finding Mart\u00edn de Porres in Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/soundings\/summary\/v097\/97.3.garces.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>American Race and Charismatic License: Finding Mart\u00edn de Porres in Obama<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/soundings\" target=\"_blank\">Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/soundings\/toc\/sij.97.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 97, Number 3, 2014<\/a><br \/>\npages 376-384<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1353\/sij.2014.0018<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.cornell.edu\/people\/detail.cfm?netid=ceg97\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chris Garces<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>Cornell University, Ithaca, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Problematizing the saintly reputation of seventeenth-century Dominican servant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_de_Porres\" target=\"_blank\">Mart\u00edn de Porres<\/a>, this article explores a little-known, late medieval Spanish form of agency, or <em>licencia<\/em>, with which a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\"><em>mulato<\/em><\/a> colonial monastic could influence his Spanish Creole superiors, perform miracles, and gain a widespread reputation for superhuman piety. I ask: under what specific conditions could <em>licencia<\/em> have been wielded by nonwhite Christian subjects to manipulate the shifting moral orders of early modern Spanish Creole hegemony? I also explore how the politicization of racialized charisma continues to depend on a logic of <em>licencia<\/em>. Tracking resonances between the Spanish Creole veneration of a <em>mulato<\/em> figure in seventeenth-century Peru with the recent election of a \u201cmixed race\u201d president in the United States, this article reads together theology and politics to demonstrate the fraught beauty, or legal \u201cbeatification,\u201d of racialized charisma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Race and Charismatic License: Finding Mart\u00edn de Porres in Obama Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 97, Number 3, 2014 pages 376-384 DOI: 10.1353\/sij.2014.0018 Chris Garces, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Problematizing the saintly reputation of seventeenth-century Dominican servant Mart\u00edn de Porres, this article explores a little-known, late medieval Spanish form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,63,21,459,8,26,820],"tags":[17667,6228,674,1125],"class_list":["post-36969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-religion","tag-chris-garces","tag-martin-de-porres","tag-peru","tag-soundings-an-interdisciplinary-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36969","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=36969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49327,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36969\/revisions\/49327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}