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Description
This paper revisits the argument in made in a 2005 article, titled “Rethinking mestizaje: ideology and lived experience” (Journal of Latin American Studies 37(2):239-257). In the article, I argued that, in addition to being a top-down ideology of national identity, mestizaje was also a lived embodied reality, and this was part of its hegemonic power. Here I review this argument and assess its continued relevance, after more than 30 years of Black and Indigenous political mobilisation with and after the multicultural turn, after the recent emergence of movements around brown identities (such as prieto in Mexico and marron in Argentina), and in the context of the recent and incipient “turn to anti-racism” in Latin America.
Period
23 May 2025
Event title
Latin American Studies Association Conference 2025
Event type
Conference
Location
San Francisco, United States, CaliforniaShow on map