Beyond Mestizaje

Author : Tania Islas Weinstein
Publisher : Amherst College Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781943208678

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Beyond Mestizaje by Tania Islas Weinstein Pdf

Racism has historically been a taboo topic in Mexico. This is largely due to the nationalist project of mestizaje which contends that because all Mexicans are racially mixed, race is not a salient political issue. In recent years, however, race and racism have become important topics of debate in the country’s public sphere and academia. This book introduces readers to a sample of these diverse and sometimes conflicting views that also intersect with discussions of class. The activists and scholars included in the volume come from fields such as anthropology, linguistics, history, sociology, and political science. Through these diverse epistemological frameworks, the authors show how people in contemporary Mexico interpret the world in racial terms and denounce racism.

Author : Nestor Medina
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608333615

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Mestizaje by Nestor Medina Pdf

Author : Stefanie Wickstrom,Philip D. Young
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816530908

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Mestizaje and Globalization by Stefanie Wickstrom,Philip D. Young Pdf

Mestizaje and Globalization contributes to an emerging multidisciplinary effort to explore how identities are imposed, negotiated, and reconstructed. The volume offers a comprehensive and empirically diverse collection of insights that look beyond nationalistic mestizaje projects to a diversity of local concepts, understandings, and resistance, with particular attention to cases in Latin America and the United States.

Author : David S. Dalton
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683403227

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Mestizo Modernity by David S. Dalton Pdf

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the Humanities After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country’s racially diverse population into one official mixed-race identity—the mestizo. This book shows that as part of this vision, the Mexican government believed it could modernize “primitive” Indigenous peoples through technology in the form of education, modern medicine, industrial agriculture, and factory work. David Dalton takes a close look at how authors, artists, and thinkers—some state-funded, some independent—engaged with official views of Mexican racial identity from the 1920s to the 1970s. Dalton surveys essays, plays, novels, murals, and films that portray indigenous bodies being fused, or hybridized, with technology. He examines José Vasconcelos’s essay “The Cosmic Race” and the influence of its ideologies on mural artists such as Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. He discusses the theme of introducing Amerindians to medical hygiene and immunizations in the films of Emilio “El Indio” Fernández. He analyzes the portrayal of indigenous monsters in the films of El Santo, as well as Carlos Olvera’s critique of postrevolutionary worldviews in the novel Mejicanos en el espacio. Incorporating the perspectives of posthumanism and cyborg studies, Dalton shows that technology played a key role in race formation in Mexico throughout the twentieth century. This cutting-edge study offers fascinating new insights into the culture of mestizaje, illuminating the attitudes that inform Mexican race relations in the present day. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodriguez

Author : John Francis Burke
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1585443468

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Mestizo Democracy by John Francis Burke Pdf

It can come as no surprise that the ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing. That there are political repercussions from these changes is also self-evident. How the changes can, must, and should alter our very understanding of democracy, though, may not be obvious. Political theorist John Burke addresses these issues by offering a “mestizo” theory of democracy and tracing its implications for public policy. The challenge before the United States in the coming century, Burke posits, will be to articulate a politics that neither renders cultures utterly autonomous from each other nor culminates in their homogeneous assimilation. Fortuitously or ironically, the way to do this comes from the very culture that is now necessitating the change. Mestizo is a term from the Mexican socio-political experience. It means “mixture” and implies a particular kind of mixture that has resulted in a blend of indigenous, African, and Spanish genes and cultures in Latin America. This mixture is not a “melting pot” experience, where all eventually become assimilated; rather, it is a mixture in which the influences of the different cultures remain identifiable but not static. They all evolve through interaction with the others, and the resulting larger culture also evolves as the parts do. Mestizaje (the collective noun form) is thus process more than condition. John Burke analyzes both American democratic theory and multiculturalism within political theology to develop a model for cultivating a democratic political community that can deal constructively with its cultural diversity. He applies this new model to a number of important policy issues: official language(s), voting and participation, equal employment opportunity, housing, and free trade. He then presents an intensive case study, based on a parish “multicultural committee” and choir in which he has been a participant, to show how the “engaged dialogue” of mestizaje might work and what pitfalls await it. Burke concludes that in the United States we are becoming mestizo whether we know it or not and whether we like it or not. By embracing the communitarian but non-assimilationist stance of intentional mestizaje, we can forge a future together that will be not only greater than the sum of its parts but also freer and more just than its past.

Author : Ruben Rosario Rodriguez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814776285

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Racism and God-Talk by Ruben Rosario Rodriguez Pdf

2011 Winner of the Book Awards Contest in the Discipline of Theology Presented by Alpha Sigma Nu The apostle Paul wrote that "All of you are one in Christ Jesus." Given Paul’s vision of God’s kingdom defined by the breakdown of all distinctions and relationships of domination—no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female—how do we make sense of ethnic particularity within the church’s theological formulations? Racism and God-Talk explores the biblical and religious dimensions of North American racism while highlighting examples of resistance within the Christian religious tradition. Social historians have seldom analyzed the problematic of race from a primarily theological perspective. This volume undertakes a critical examination of explicitly theological and confessional perspectives for understanding and transforming North American racism. Rosario Rodriguez offers insights from Latino/a theology for broader scholarly and social discussions concerning racism, borders, and immigration. The first to analyze race and racism from a Latino/a theological perspective, the volume makes use of a broadened conceptualization of "mestizaje," or mutual cultural exchange, to challenge the church to recognize the effects of racial and ethnic particularity in all theological construction.

Author : Michael L. Trujillo
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826347374

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Land of Disenchantment by Michael L. Trujillo Pdf

New Mexico's Española Valley is situated in the northern part of the state between the fabled Sangre de Cristo and Jemez Mountains. Many of the Valley’s communities have roots in the Spanish and Mexican periods of colonization, while the Native American Pueblos of Ohkay Owingeh and Santa Clara are far older. The Valley's residents include a large Native American population, an influential "Anglo" or "non-Hispanic white" minority, and a growing Mexican immigrant community. In spite of the varied populace, native New Mexican Latinos, or Nuevomexicanos, remain the majority and retain control of area politics. In this experimental ethnography, Michael Trujillo presents a vision of Española that addresses its denigration by neighbors--and some of its residents--because it represents the antithesis of the positive narrative of New Mexico. Contradicting the popular notion of New Mexico as the "Land of Enchantment," a fusion of race, landscape, architecture, and food into a romanticized commodity, Trujillo probes beneath the surface to reveal the causes of social dysfunction brought about by colonization and te transition from a pastoral to an urban economy.

Author : Vítor Westhelle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532600449

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Transfiguring Luther by Vítor Westhelle Pdf

Luther's theology and practice have inspired and continue to inspire so many across confessional and even religious alignments worldwide, or else excite those for whom he displays a coveted, untamed audacity in living out convictions; it is the fabric, the texture that makes Luther a figura with the capability of being transfigured. Luther's theology--his view of language and understanding of creation, incarnation, the cross; his affirmation of freedom from ecclesial, economic, and/or political encroachments; his eschatology, and so forth--is seen in a new light in societies in which modernization does not necessarily mean secularization and the spirit is not set in dual opposition to things material. The dispute as to whether Luther is a late medieval theologian or a beacon of modernity is rendered largely superfluous when the Reformer is read and interpreted in contexts that do not share the peculiar cultural and political history of Europe, its orthodoxies, its pietisms, its enlightenments, and its secularisms. Transfiguring Luther lifts up and presents the significance of the Reformer--his figure as it is transfigured into diverse contexts, absorbing new contents instead of the traditional bastions that are remarkably in tune with the spirit of the Reformation, thus rekindling it.

Author : Paul K Eiss,Joanne Rapport
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367892359

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The Politics and Performance of Mestizaje in Latin America by Paul K Eiss,Joanne Rapport Pdf

The term "mestizaje" is generally translated as race mixture, with races typically understood as groups differentiated by skin color or other physical characteristics. Yet such understandings seem contradicted by contemporary understandings of race as a cultural construct, or idea, rather than as a biological entity. How might one then approach mestizaje in a way that is not definitionally predicated on 'race, ' or at least, on a modernist formulation of race as phenotypically expressed biological difference? The contributors to this volume provide explorations of this question in varied Latin American contexts (Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru), from the16th century to the present. They treat 'mestizo acts' neither as expressions of pre-existing social identities, nor as ideologies enforced from above, but as cultural performances enacted in the in-between spaces of social and political life. Moreover, they show how 'mestizo acts' not only express or reinforce social hierarchies, but institute or change them - seeking to prove - or to dismantle - genealogies of race, blood, sex, and language in public and political ways. The chapters in this book originally published as a special issue of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.

Author : Jione Havea,Clive Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134938728

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Out of Place by Jione Havea,Clive Pearson Pdf

"Place" shapes human identity and community. Arguing that theologies are shaped by place so no theology can be universal, "Out of Place" assesses the ways in which theology, as a discipline and a practice, is "out of place". Departing from dominant theological discourse, the book argues that for theology to be transformative it must connect with "place" and engage with marginalised peoples and cultures. Ranging across Asian American theology to Tamils in the London diaspora, Australian Pentecostalism to HIV and AIDS sufferers, "Out of Place" will be of invaluable to scholars and students of sociology and religion interested in the intersection of theology and locality.

Author : Robert K. Johnston
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441201726

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Reframing Theology and Film (Cultural Exegesis) by Robert K. Johnston Pdf

The connection between theology and film is a hot topic in the academy and the church. But research and writing on methodology and hermeneutics is lacking. This comprehensive collection identifies the overlooked or undervalued areas in the current discussions of film and theology. Including contributions from the leaders in the field, Reframing Theology and Film helps deepen the conversation while bringing it to a new level of prominence. Professors and students of theology and film, libraries, pastors, and film buffs will benefit from this much-needed resource.

Author : Enrique G. Murillo, Jr,Dolores Delgado Bernal,Socorro Morales,Luis Urrieta, Jr,Eric Ruiz Bybee,Juan Sánchez Muñoz,Victor B. Saenz,Daniel Villanueva,Margarita Machado-Casas,Katherine Espinoza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000399967

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Handbook of Latinos and Education by Enrique G. Murillo, Jr,Dolores Delgado Bernal,Socorro Morales,Luis Urrieta, Jr,Eric Ruiz Bybee,Juan Sánchez Muñoz,Victor B. Saenz,Daniel Villanueva,Margarita Machado-Casas,Katherine Espinoza Pdf

Now in its second edition, this Handbook offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education. Presenting the most significant and potentially influential work in the field in terms of its contributions to research, to professional practice, and to the emergence of related interdisciplinary studies and theory, the volume is now organized around four tighter key themes of history, theory, and methodology; policies and politics; language and culture; teaching and learning. New chapters broaden the scope of theoretical lenses to include intersectionality, as well as coverage of dual language education, discussion around the Latinx, and other recent updates to the field. The Handbook of Latinos and Education is a must-have resource for educational researchers; graduate students; teacher educators; and the broad spectrum of individuals, groups, agencies, organizations, and institutions that share a common interest in and commitment to the educational issues that impact Latinos.

Author : Virgilio P. Elizondo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007161352

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Beyond Borders by Virgilio P. Elizondo Pdf

A celebration of the theology of Virgilio Elizondo that brings together his significant essays, previously unpublished in book form, along with critical reflections by a range of scholars.

Author : Ben Vinson III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107026438

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Before Mestizaje by Ben Vinson III Pdf

This book deepens our understanding of race and the implications of racial mixture by examining the history of caste in colonial Mexico.

Author : Ignacio López-Calvo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123321403

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Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond by Ignacio López-Calvo Pdf

Orientalism is widely known as the study of Eastern cultures by Western intellectuals. Yet most people would associate this term with scholars from France, England, Germany, and the United States. This book presents, along with new essays dealing with the United States, the Islamic world and the Far East, alternative views on Orientalism, this time also coming from Latin America and other regions. While still dealing, in some cases, with interpretations of the East by Western outsiders, the fact that the cultural production analyzed (as well as many of the critics) comes from an area, Latin America, that has also been affected by European and U.S. imperialism and colonialism brings new light to the traditionally negative connotations ascribed to the term. These essays reveal that, though prejudice and racism are still prevalent in many Orientalist aesthetic practices coming from Latin America and other world regions, the perspective can also be radically different. From this perspective, rather than constructing the Orient as the Westâ (TM)s alien and inferior other, the mirror image that appears in this book constitutes an attempt at understanding the Asian within us (within the Western world). The postcolonial approach of many of these essays is the theoretical framework that prevents (or, at least, tries to prevent) paternalistic or hegemonic representations of the Asian subject. As a result, the emphasis is often placed on transculturation, hybridity, liminality, double consciousness, and cultural identity.