Abstract

WADE, PETER. REPENSANDO EL MESTIZAJE. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2003, vol.39, pp.273-296. ISSN 0486-6525.

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.

Keywords : mestizaje-miscegenation; identities; nationalisms; popular music and culture; reflexivity.

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