{"id":4700,"date":"2010-01-23T19:32:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T19:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2010-01-23T19:32:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T19:32:54","slug":"patrolling-borders-hybrids-hierarchies-and-the-challenge-of-mestizaje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4700","title":{"rendered":"Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/prq.sagepub.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/57\/4\/597\" target=\"_blank\">Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prq.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Research Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\nVol. 57, No. 4<br \/>\npages 597-607<br \/>\n(2004)<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1177\/106591290405700408<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haverford.edu\/faculty\/cbeltran\" target=\"_blank\">Cristina Beltran<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>Haverford College<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=686\" target=\"_blank\">Hybridity<\/a>&#8221; has become a popular concept among scholars of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_race_theory\" target=\"_blank\">critical race theory<\/a> and identity, particularly those studying <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicano\" target=\"_blank\">Chicano<\/a> identity. Some scholars claim that hybridity\u2014premised on multiplicity and fluidity\u2014represents a new approach to subjectivity, challenging the idea of a stable and unified subject. In &#8220;Patrolling Borders,&#8221; I argue that scholars are mistaken in their belief that &#8220;hybrid&#8221; or &#8220;bordered&#8221; identities are inherently transgressive or antiessentialist. By constructing a genealogy of Chicano hybridity (i.e., <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizaje\" target=\"_blank\"><em>mestizaje<\/em><\/a>) I show how Chicano nationalists produced a politicized subjectivity during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicano_Movement\" target=\"_blank\">Chicano Movement<\/a> that emerged as the basis for recent notions of hybridity put forward by writers like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloria_Anzald%C3%BAa\" target=\"_blank\">Gloria Anzald\u00faa<\/a>. By tracing the historical construction of mestizaje, I show how hybridity continues to be a discursive practice capable of comfortably coexisting with dreams of privileged knowledge, order, and wholeness.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/prq.sagepub.com\/cgi\/reprint\/57\/4\/597\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje Political Research Quarterly Vol. 57, No. 4 pages 597-607 (2004) DOI: 10.1177\/106591290405700408 Cristina Beltran, Associate Professor of Political Science Haverford College &#8220;Hybridity&#8221; has become a popular concept among scholars of critical race theory and identity, particularly those studying Chicano identity. Some scholars claim that hybridity\u2014premised on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26,394,20],"tags":[975,1891,1474,152,992],"class_list":["post-4700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-chicano-studies","tag-cristina-beltran","tag-gloria-anzaldua","tag-hybridity","tag-political-research-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700","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=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}