{"id":62589,"date":"2021-12-14T01:30:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62589"},"modified":"2021-12-14T01:30:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:30:27","slug":"passing-for-white-or-the-true-colors-of-cuban-miscegenation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62589","title":{"rendered":"Passing for white or the true colors of Cuban miscegenation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passing for white or the true colors of Cuban miscegenation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

OnCuba News<\/a>
\n2021-12-08<\/p>\n

Odette Casamayor<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Romance Languages
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a>
\nPhoto: Kaloian Santos.<\/small><\/p>\n

The miscegenation<\/a>, in addition to being fierce and magical, painful or romantic, torment, fun, depending on how you want to interpret it, is one of the most insidious phenomena that exists.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am black, in all circumstances and scenarios. I could never pass for anything else. Perhaps that is why I have always been curious about the strategies deployed by many in what could be considered another national sport: \u201cpassing for white<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is abundant magic and tragedy in each link of a complicated gear that, since colonial times, has operated relentlessly in Latin American societies. In the territories colonized by the Iberian metropolises, miscegenation<\/a> would go beyond its primary biological dimension to, regardless of its intensity, become an important instrument of social mobility, promoting progress as the skin whitens and the negroid features become blurred or, as is commonly said, \u201cthe race is improved.\u201d Meanwhile, in the Anglo-Saxon north equal opportunities were not granted to the mestizo subject. That is why what many call \u201cthe race,\u201d because they choose to consider it a reality and not a historical, political and socio-economically determined construction, cannot in appearance be \u201cimproved\u201d in the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, miscegenation, in addition to being fierce and magical, painful or romantic, torment, fun, depending on how you want to interpret it, is one of the most insidious phenomena that exists. Miscegenation has always been a pandemic: it occurs everywhere when it is least expected and promoted. So, although much less structured than in Latin America<\/a>, the mechanism of \u201cpassing for white\u201d also has a following in the United States…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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