{"id":43538,"date":"2015-10-27T17:58:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43538"},"modified":"2015-10-27T18:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:01:05","slug":"blackness-and-mestizaje-in-mexico-and-central-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43538","title":{"rendered":"Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/africaworldpressbooks.com\/blackness-and-mestizaje-in-mexico-and-central-americaedited-by-elisabeth-cunin-and-odile-Hoffmann\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/africaworldpressbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Africa World Press<\/a><br \/>\n2013<br \/>\n176 pages<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1592219339<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ird.academia.edu\/ElisabethCunin\" target=\"_blank\">Elisabeth Cunin<\/a><\/strong>, Sociologist<br \/>\n<em>Institut de Recherche pour le D\u00e9veloppement, France<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:odile.hoffmann@ird.fr\" target=\"_blank\">Odile Hoffmann<\/a><\/strong>, Geographer<br \/>\n<em>Institut de Recherche pour le D\u00e9veloppement, France<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/africaworldpressbooks.com\/blackness-and-mestizaje-in-mexico-and-central-americaedited-by-elisabeth-cunin-and-odile-Hoffmann\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn6.bigcommerce.com\/s-e2q5po\/products\/3231\/images\/6168\/Blackness%252520and%252520Mestizaje%252520cover%2525208-2-13-r-cropped_thumb__42126.1420826687.1280.1280.jpg?c=2\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>American configurations, because of their originality, force us to adopt plural visions, toward the margins, with particular emphasis on situations of mixtures and ambiguous categories (Afro-indigenous, creoles, mestizos), multiple belongings (national and transnational), or seemingly contradictory practices (black culture without black people, mobilization without ethnic claims).<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the ideal of a homogenized citizenship produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\"><em>mestizaje<\/em><\/a>, there are complex social dynamics based on difference and indifference, stigmatization and fascination, homogenization and othering. We believe that <em>mestizaje<\/em> is not only a &#8220;myth&#8221; and multiculturalism a &#8220;challenge&#8221; to it. The essays in this book investigate the different processes of racialization, ethnicization, and negotiation of the belongings that characterize <em>mestizaje<\/em> as multiculturalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America Africa World Press 2013 176 pages ISBN: 978-1592219339 Edited by: Elisabeth Cunin, Sociologist Institut de Recherche pour le D\u00e9veloppement, France Odile Hoffmann, Geographer Institut de Recherche pour le D\u00e9veloppement, France American configurations, because of their originality, force us to adopt plural visions, toward the margins, with particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,21,459,8,103,394],"tags":[1155,21674,21675],"class_list":["post-43538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-socialscience","tag-africa-world-press","tag-elisabeth-cunin","tag-odile-hoffmann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43538","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=43538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43539,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43538\/revisions\/43539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}