ANTB18H3 Lecture Notes - National Myth, Nordic Race, Carl Linnaeus
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The limits of possible blackness in the americas. Last week was about a celebration of mixedness. Claim to being a mestizo nation is a centrial part of national myth (as a story that the nation tells about itself) Key ideas from last class: latin american nations were founded largely on the figure of the mestizo. Justified emancipation from spain ( we are not spanish ) Diret correspondence established between a certain kind of person (mestizo) and a certain kind of political formation (nation-state): i. e citizen-as-mestizo. A mystical" more than biological celebration of hybridity. >mestizo implied idea of new independent nation state. >>now citizen in relation to new independent state: mestizaje becomes centerpiece oif nation-building. Scientific knowledge and political interventions combine in projects of assimilation and integration. Question so what did this mean for indigenous people, blacks etc: mestizaje as redemptive . [quote] i. e reinforces racist ideologies and prevailing hierarchies. A brief note about the present movement (1990--)
