Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America

Bys: Elisabeth Cunin and Odile Hoffmann and editors

Beyond the ideal of a homogenised citizenship produced by the mixing of races - mestizaje - there are complex social dynamics based on difference and indifference, stigmatisation and fascination, homogenisation and othering. The contributors to this volume believe that mestizaje is more than a myth' and multiculturalism a 'challenge' to it. The essays in this book investigate the different processes of racialisation, ethnicisation and negotiation of the belongings that characterize mestizaje as multiculturalism.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592219330
• ISBN13: 9781592219339
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Africa World Press, Inc.
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.5" x 8.4"