How to Tell a Mestizo from an Enchirito¯: Colonialism and National Culture in the Borderlands

Hames-García, Michael

doi:10.1353/dia.2000.0030

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“…The cultural intersection that characterises postethnic social orders like those of late 20th-century North America (Byers, 2011; Hollinger, 2000) is forcing a reinterpretation of culture and cultural difference (Gupta and Ferguson, 1992; Radhakrishnan, 1987). In postethnic social orders everyone is situated at ‘unstable borderlines of difference’ (Alcoff, 2004), necessarily crossing borders and ‘juggling cultures’ (Hames-Garcia, 2000: 111), producing difference, contradiction (Gupta and Ferguson, 1992: 18) and a measure of ‘mestiza consciousness’ (Hames-Garcia, 2000: 109–111). Postethnic selfhood can be difficult because, as Gloria Anzaldua says, others’ ‘labels [continue to] split me’ (Keating, 2009: 45–46).…”

Section: Aborigines' Increasingly Postethnic Intercultural Everyday mentioning

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“…An intercultural paradigm would aim to moderate difference so that Aborigines can be considered (by themselves and others) Aboriginal while also being bourgeois, educated, healthy, Christian, participatory citizen and/or White. The paradigm would ‘transcend the [singular focus on the] particular while remaining attentive to it’ (Hames-Garcia, 2000: 108).…”

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Interculturality, postethnicity and the Aboriginal Australian policy future

Moore

2016

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Though now under some challenge, the policy orthodoxy in Australian Aboriginal affairs since the 1970s has been progressive in its social justice orientation, postcolonial in its amelioration of the colonial legacy, and culturalist in its privileging of ethnicity. In this paper I argue that its attempt to recover the past in the face of increasing postethnicity is becoming counter-productive, by stultifying cultural adaptation and compromising individuals' capacity to engage with modernity. The notions of interculturality and postethnicity point to coexisting ancestral cultures, an imagined, symbolic national Aboriginality, and deep intersection with settler-Australia and the world, and so cultural 'changing-sameness' and simultaneous 'bothness'. The paper argues that a dialectic of public policy and Aboriginal identity politics resists this lived reality, with negative effects. It proposes that a way forward is to engage more fully with the lived reality.

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