{"id":45596,"date":"2016-02-12T19:35:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T19:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45596"},"modified":"2017-07-10T23:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T23:55:46","slug":"how-mestizaje-in-puerto-rico-makes-room-for-racism-to-flourish%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45596","title":{"rendered":"How \u201cMestizaje\u201d in Puerto Rico Makes Room for Racism to Flourish\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/larespuestamedia.com\/mestizaje-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How \u201cMestizaje\u201d in Puerto Rico Makes Room for Racism to Flourish<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/larespuestamedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Respuesta: A magazine to (Re)Imagine the Boricua Diaspora<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-08<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/larespuestamedia.com\/author\/dorothyferrer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dorothy Bell Ferrer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/larespuestamedia.com\/mestizaje-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/larespuestamedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ThreePRGirls-BIG.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>\u201cThree Puerto Rican Girls\u201d<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomos de tres razas! La blanca, la india, y la negra!\u201d is a cliched response you can almost always count on hearing anytime you bring up race or racism in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Puerto Rico<\/a> or Puerto Rican Diaspora communities. It\u2019s cute, easy to remember, and also a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically the European root, which is most often mistaken as the backbone of Puerto Rican culture, is mentioned first. The indigenous, Ta\u00edno root, which is often recognized strategically (yes, strategically) in front of blackness is named second. Oh, and the third? African or Black! Last but not least, right? I\u2019d like to think so, but I know better.<\/p>\n<p>The blending of these three races or roots in Puerto Rico are what we refer to as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mestizaje<\/a>\u201d, or mixture (1). This \u201cmestizaje\u201d is what causes Puerto Ricans to believe that we all are racially mixed the exact same way therefore there can be no \u201ctrue\u201d difference. While mestizaje is a part of Puerto Rican society and even exists in the heritage of many Puerto Ricans, the way in which mestizaje is recognized in Puerto Rico makes room for racism and white supremacy to flourish because it gives us a false historical analysis on race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/larespuestamedia.com\/mestizaje-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSomos de tres razas! La blanca, la india, y la negra!\u201d is a cliched response you can almost always count on hearing anytime you bring up race or racism in Puerto Rico or Puerto Rican Diaspora communities. It\u2019s cute, easy to remember, and also a lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,24,21,459,8,394,20],"tags":[22945,22944,20142,22946,2654],"class_list":["post-45596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-arts","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-dorothy-bell","tag-dorothy-bell-ferrer","tag-la-respuesta","tag-la-respuesta-a-magazine-to-reimagine-the-boricua-diaspora","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45596","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=45596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53954,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45596\/revisions\/53954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}