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The Longue Durée of Racial Fixity and the Transformative Conjunctures of Racial Blending
Author(s) -
Whitten Norman E.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the journal of latin american and caribbean anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.624
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1935-4940
pISSN - 1935-4932
DOI - 10.1525/jlat.2007.12.2.356
Subject(s) - miller , white supremacy , politics , transformative learning , dominance (genetics) , race (biology) , sociology , key (lock) , aesthetics , art , gender studies , political science , law , ecology , pedagogy , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , biology
The new human beings of the modern world—español, indio, negro, mestizo, mulato, sambo—were born out of the same upheaval that made "nations," "bureaucrats," "slavers," "global merchants," and "colonies." It was the modern world's signature to etch economic dominance and political supremacy into a radical cultural design. It was also its signature to hide the social relations that were brewing supremacy and conflict behind a semblance of "race things". Irene Silverblatt (2004:5) As tends to happen with martyrs and saints, any undercurrent of doubt is usually excised from the biographies of key figures associated with the defense of Latin America's unique mesticity. Marilyn Grace Miller (2004:14)