Envisioning the United States in the Latin American myth of ‘racial democracy mestizaje’

Hernández, Tanya Katerí

doi:10.1080/17442222.2016.1170953

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“…In this article, we use the term “Raza” instead of “Hispanic” or “Latina/o/x” as a racial-ethnic umbrella for people who have indigenous roots in Latin America, including Mexico and the Caribbean, and who embrace a diversity of histories, cultures, races, and languages. The term “La Raza” recognizes that this racial-ethnic group evolved as a result of Spanish colonization, rape, and subjugation of indigenous peoples; it evolved and was used heavily during the Chicano Movement as a form of empowerment, advocacy, and self-determination (Chávez, 2002; Hernández, 2016). The term “Raza” most closely aligns with our transformative approach to research as well as our theoretical framework.…”

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Proposing a Methodological Borderland: Combining Chicana Feminist Theory With Transformative Mixed Methods Research

García

Ramirez

2021

Journal of Mixed Methods Research

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In this article, we propose a “methodological borderland,” defined as a methodological space in constant transition; one that allows researchers to combine multiple methods, data points, and theories, guided by a desire for social justice for studied populations. In doing so, we urge mixed methods researchers to access theoretical frameworks that are grounded in the ways of knowing of participants and that promote critical analysis and interpretation in conjunction with transformative mixed methods. Using a convergent mixed methods approach, we illustrate the way Chicana feminist theory can be used as a theoretical lens and analytic tool that can amplify the voices of Raza college students. We suggest and illustrate ways to use theory to enhance transformative mixed methods.

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Proposing a Methodological Borderland: Combining Chicana Feminist Theory With Transformative Mixed Methods Research

García

Ramirez

2021

Journal of Mixed Methods Research

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“…No obstante, en el proyecto multicultural existe un amalgamiento entre racismo y democracia racial. Hernández (2016) plantea que en Colombia y otros países de la región todavía existe una "retórica nacional mestiza" aunque oficialmente se han adoptado "reformas ciudadanas multiculturales" que reconocen ciertos derechos políticos, culturales y territoriales a las comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes (Hernández 2016, 191-192). En Colombia, la Constitución Política de 1991 reconoció la existencia de una nación pluriétnica y multicultural, a la vez que contribuyó a la gestión de reformas legales, adecuaciones institucionales y cambios en la percepción social e institucional alrededor de la negritud (Paschel 2013).…”

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Interrogando la gramática racial de la blanquitud: Hacia una analítica del blanqueamiento en el orden racial colombiano

Vásquez-Padilla

Hernández-Reyes

2020

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Vásquez-Padilla, Darío Hernán, and Castriela Esther Hernández-Reyes. 2020. Interrogando la gramática racial de la blanquitud: Hacia una analítica del blanqueamiento en el orden racial colombiano. Latin American Research Review 55(1), pp. 64-80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.170 SOCIOLOGYInterrogando la gramática racial de la blanquitud: Hacia una analítica del blanqueamiento en el orden racial colombiano Este artículo estudia la percepción que tienen los individuos sobre el color de su piel como una dimensión ideológica del blanqueamiento. Usando modelos de regresión logística binaria en una muestra nacional representativa del Barómetro de las Américas en Colombia, preguntamos: ¿Existe alguna asociación entre las categorías étnico-raciales, el color de la piel, el estatus social y el deseo individual de tener un color de piel más claro? ¿Qué explica el deseo de tener un color de piel más claro en el seno de una sociedad racializada? Este estudio encuentra que las personas que se autoidentifican como blancas tienen una mayor probabilidad de desear tener un color de piel más claro que las personas negras, después de controlar por el color de la piel. Además, aquellos con un tono de piel intermedio también tienen un mayor deseo de blanqueamiento. Los resultados muestran que, para las personas que se autoidentifican como negras en Colombia, el blanqueamiento parece no constituirse en una ventana de escape de procesos históricos y estructurales de marginación social, ni en una estrategia de evasión de prácticas de discriminación racial.

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“…As shown in the articles that follow, the omnipresence of anti-black racism in the region has not decreased with the multicultural turn. This is so, despite the fact that many white and white-mestizo Latin Americans continue repeating with ease, when they are either at home or traveling abroad, their widespread belief that race relations in the region have been much less brutal and much more convivial than race relations have been in the United States (see Hernández 2016). Such a prevalent faith is testament to the success of twentieth century Latin American elites that developed and spread ideological narratives of national identity that celebrate mestizaje (race mixing between indigenous and Europeans in the Andean region and in many Spanish-speaking Latin American countries) (Hale 1996(Hale , 1999Miller 2004;Rahier 2003;Stutzman 1981) or mestiçagem (a term referring to any kind of race mixing in Brazil, even though there it often means race mixing between Europeans and Afrodescendants) 7 as the prototypical national identity.…”

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Evaluating the usefulness of contemporary ethnoracial law for Afrodescendants in Latin America through the examination of court cases and the appreciation of the state’s processual nature

Rahier

2019

Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies

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in Miami, Florida, which led to the foundation of the Observatory of Justice for Afrodescendants in Latin America (OJALA). 1 The focus of the issue is on the adoption of what we call 'ethnoracial law' in Latin America since the late 1980s until the present. Each chapter contributes to this project with the analysis of one or two recent litigation(s) in which ethnoracial legal instruments were used as the case(s) unfolded in their particular national context, both within and beyond the confines of an actual courtroom. The comparative approach that the issue as a whole provides allows for an evaluation of the usefulness (or lack thereof) for Afrodescendants of ethnoracial law in its current forms in the region. We understand 'ethnoracial law' to encompass: 1) the articles of constitutions and special laws that recognize and define identity-based collective rights (generally over land or 'territory,' cultural practices, and perspective), and which form what are usually called 'multicultural legal instruments' (the right to be 'pluriversally' or 'decolonially' 2 different); and 2) the constitutional articles and special laws often referred to as 'racial equality law' or 'anti-discrimination law' adopted by constituent assemblies as well as municipal, provincial, or departmental, national, and international or multilateral governing bodies, which criminalize hate crimes and discrimination to guarantee the protection of Afrodescendants' rights and remedy wrongs they have experienced (the right to be the same). This distinction between the right to be different and the right to be the same has had notable relevance in Brazil, particularly when considering debates about political strategies within black social movements, which often separate representatives of urban and rural communities (

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Envisioning the United States in the Latin American myth of ‘racial democracy mestizaje’

Cited by 20 publications

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Proposing a Methodological Borderland: Combining Chicana Feminist Theory With Transformative Mixed Methods Research

Proposing a Methodological Borderland: Combining Chicana Feminist Theory With Transformative Mixed Methods Research

Interrogando la gramática racial de la blanquitud: Hacia una analítica del blanqueamiento en el orden racial colombiano

Evaluating the usefulness of contemporary ethnoracial law for Afrodescendants in Latin America through the examination of court cases and the appreciation of the state’s processual nature

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