{"id":5404,"date":"2010-02-21T02:19:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5404"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:51:40","slug":"mestizaje-and-the-mexican-mestizo-self-no-hay-sangre-negra-so-there-is-no-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5404","title":{"rendered":"Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No hay Sangre Negra, so there is no Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www-bcf.usc.edu\/~idjlaw\/PDF\/15-2\/15-2%20Banks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No hay Sangre Negra, so there is no Blackness<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-bcf.usc.edu\/~idjlaw\" target=\"_blank\">Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www-bcf.usc.edu\/~idjlaw\/issues.html#15-2\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 15, Number 2<\/a> (Spring 2006)<br \/>\nPages 199-234<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.umaryland.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/faculty.html?facultynum=009\" target=\"_blank\">Taunya Lovell Banks<\/a><\/strong>, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence and Francis &amp; Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>University of Maryland School of Law<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many legal scholars who write about Mexican <em>mestizaje<\/em> omit references to Afromexicans, Mexico\u2019s African roots, and contemporary anti-black sentiments in the Mexican and Mexican American communities. The reasons for the erasure or invisibility of Mexico\u2019s African roots are complex. <strong>It argues that post-colonial officials and theorists in shaping Mexico\u2019s national image were influenced two factors: the Spanish colonial legacy and the complex set of rules creating a race-like caste system with a distinct anti-black bias reinforced through art; and the negative images of Mexico and Mexicans articulated in the United States during the early nineteenth century.<\/strong> The post-colonial Mexican becomes mestiza\/o, defined as European and Indian, with an emphasis on the European roots. Thus contemporary anti-black bias in Mexico is a vestige of Spanish colonialism and nationalism that must be acknowledged, but is often lost in the uncritical celebration of Latina\/o <em>mestizaje<\/em> when advanced as a unifying principle that moves beyond the conventional binary (black-white) discussions of race. <strong>This uncritical and ahistorical invocation of <em>mestizaje<\/em> has serious implications for race relations in the United States given the growing presence and political power of Mexican Americans because substituting <em>mestizaje<\/em> for racial binarism when discussing race in the United States reinforces rather than diminishes notions of white racial superiority and dominance.<\/strong> Therefore legal scholars who write about Latina\/o issues should replace their uncritical celebration of <em>mestizaje<\/em> with a focus on colonialism and capitalism, the twin isms that influenced ideological theories and racial formation from the late fifteenth through the twentieth century in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www-bcf.usc.edu\/~idjlaw\/PDF\/15-2\/15-2%20Banks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No hay Sangre Negra, so there is no Blackness Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring 2006) Pages 199-234 Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence and Francis &amp; Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law University of Maryland School of Law Many legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,24,21,1467,8,103,394],"tags":[4633,2343,20753,2285,2018],"class_list":["post-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-arts","category-latincarib","category-law","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-socialscience","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-mexico","tag-southern-california-interdisciplinary-law-journal","tag-taunya-lovell-banks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404","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=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}