Mestizaje and globalization : transformations of identity and power / edited by Stefanie Wickstrom and Philip D. Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Young, Philip D., editor.

Wickstrom, Stefanie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mestizos--United States--Ethnic identity.

Mestizos.

Mestizos--Latin America--Ethnic identity.

Mestizaje--United States.

Mestizaje.

Ethnicity--Latin America.

Ethnicity.

Ethnicity--United States.

Mestizaje--Latin America.

Globalization--Social aspects--Latin America.

Globalization.

Globalization--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuczon, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Spanish word mestizaje does not easily translate into English. Its meaning and significance have been debated for centuries since colonization by European powers began. Its simplest definition is "mixing." As long as the term has been employed, norms and ideas about racial and cultural relations in the Americas have been imagined, imposed, questioned, rejected, and given new meaning. Mestizaje and Globalization presents perspectives on the underlying transformation of identity and power associated with the term during times of great change in the Americas. The volume offers a comprehensive and empirically diverse collection of insights concerning mestizaje's complex relationship with indigeneity, the politics of ethnic identity, transnational social movements, the aesthetic of cultural production, development policies, and capitalist globalization, with particular attention to cases in Latin America and the United States. Beyond the narrow and often inadequate meaning of mestizaje as biological and racial mixing, the concept deserves an innovative theoretical consideration due to its multidimensional, multifaceted character and its resilience as an ideological construct. The contributors argue that historical analyses of mestizaje do not sufficiently understand contemporary ways that racism, ethnic discrimination, and social injustice intermingle with current discourse and practice of cultural recognition and multiculturalism in the Americas. Mestizaje and Globalization contributes to an emerging multidisciplinary effort to explore how identities are imposed, negotiated, and reconstructed. The chapter authors clearly set forth the issues and obstacles that Indigenous peoples and subjugated minorities face, as well as the strategies they have employed to gain empowerment in the face of globalization"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction to Key Concepts / Stefanie Wickstrom and Philip D. Young

Part I. Constructing Mestizaje

Mestizaje : The Revolutionary Encounter / Rex Wirth

Mestizaje in Colonial Mexican Art / Sofía Irene Velarde Cruz

The Tradition of "La Chaya" in Vallenar, Chile : The Search for Imaginaries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Iván Pizarro Díaz

Part II. Barriers to Empowerment through Identity

Born Indigenous, Growing Up Mestizos : Schooling and Youth in Arequipa, Peru / Mariella I. Arredondo

Questioning the Nation : Affirmative Action and Racial Quotas in Brazilian Universities / Paulo Alberto dos Santos Vieira

Political Subjectification, Mestizaje, and Globalization : Constructing Citizenship in Aid and Development Programs in the Peruvian Andes / Jorge Legoas P. and Fabrizio Arenas Barchi

The Door to the Future : Cultural Change and the Cheyenne Sundance / Jennifer Whiteman

Part III. Empowerment

From Mestizos to Mashikuna : Global Influences on Discursive, Spatial, and Performed Realizations of Indigeneity in Urban Quito / Kathleen S. Fine-Dare

Indigenous Peoples as a New Category of Transnational Social Actors : An Analysis Based on the Case of Argentina / Sabine Kradolfer

Divine Design : Crafting and Consuming the Sacred in Afro-Brazilian Candomble / Angela Castañeda

Women's Roles and Responses to Globalization in Ngäbe Communities / Philip D. Young

Politicizing Ethnicity : Strategies in Panama and Ecuador / Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar and Mónica Martínez Mauri

Beyond Mestizaje : Andean Interculturality / John Stolle-McAllister.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-9857-6

OCLC:

896861848