Abstract

MUNIZ, Elsa. From miscegenation to corporal hybridazation: ethno-surgery as a form of racism. Nómadas [online]. 2013, n.38, pp.81-97. ISSN 0121-7550.

This article aims to expose how race-based exclusion and discrimination persist in allegedly democratic and inclusive societies. By reviewing two periods of the recent Mexican history: the post-revolutionary period and the years between 1988 and 2000, it is shown how certain cosmetic practices work as corporal dispositifs that materialize subjects producing corporal hybrids, which constitute subjectivities and identities proper to post-national societies.

Keywords : cosmetic ethno-surgery; miscegenation; corporal hybridization; body-corporeality; racism; corporal dispositif.

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