Rethinking interbreeding
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https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X.1243Keywords:
mestizaje-miscegenation, identities, nationalisms, popular music and culture, reflexivityAbstract
The ideology of mestizaje (mixture) in Latin America has frequently BEEN seen as involving a process of national homogenization and of hiding a reality of racist exclusion behind a mask of inclusiveness. This view is challenged, with the argument that mestizaje inherently implies a permanent dimension of national differentiation and that, while exclusion is an undoubted reality, inclusion is more than a mask. Case studies drawn from Colombian popular music, Venezuelan popular religion and Brazilian popular Christianity are used to illustrate these arguments and present inclusion as a process linked to embodied identities and kinship relations. In conclusion, a critique is made of approaches to hybridity that highlight its potential for destabilizing essentialisms.
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