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Liberalism and Its Contradictions: Democracy and Hierarchy in Mestizaje and Genomics in Latin America

Latin American research review, 2017-10, Vol.52 (4), p.623-638 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

COPYRIGHT 2017 Latin American Studies Association ;Copyright Latin American Studies Association 2017 ;ISSN: 0023-8791 ;EISSN: 1542-4278 ;DOI: 10.25222/larr.41

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Title:
Liberalism and Its Contradictions: Democracy and Hierarchy in Mestizaje and Genomics in Latin America
Author: Wade, Peter
Subjects: 20th century ; Analysis ; Contradiction ; Contradictions ; Democracy ; Enactment ; Equality ; Ethnicity ; Gender ; Genetic aspects ; Genetic research ; Genetics ; Genomics ; Health care policy ; Hierarchies ; Human rights ; Ideology ; Immigration ; Interpersonal relations ; Intimacy ; Kinship ; Latin America ; Latin American cultural groups ; Liberalism ; Mass media ; Multiculturalism & pluralism ; Oppression ; Parents & parenting ; Politics ; Progressivism ; Protection ; Race ; Racial differences ; Racial identity ; Racially mixed people ; Segregation ; Social aspects ; Social classes ; Victims ; Wade, Peter
Is Part Of: Latin American research review, 2017-10, Vol.52 (4), p.623-638
Description: This article explores Latin American genomic studies of mestizaje and the way mestizaje's inherent contradiction between equality and hierarchy--a contradiction typical of liberalism--is managed in genomics. In Latin America, ideologies and practices of mestizaje may be seen as an antidote to hierarchies of race and class, but also as a terrain for the enactment of these hierarchies. Mestizaje mediates this contradiction between equality and hierarchy first by deploying the idea of sexual intimacy and family kinship across racial difference, and second by representing blackness and indigeneity as spatially peripheral and temporally backward-looking, thus naturalizing them as other. Multiculturalism can be seen as a recent variant on these themes, as well as a departure from them. Recent genomics research in Latin America strongly reiterates these ideas, while also adding some new twists. Despite its apparent connection with progressive politics and policies (antiracism, better health for all, protection of human rights for victims of oppression), genomics here appears as a mainly conservative force.
Publisher: Pittsburgh: Latin American Studies Association
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0023-8791
EISSN: 1542-4278
DOI: 10.25222/larr.41
Source: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central

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Liberalism and Its Contradictions: Democracy and Hierarchy in Mestizaje and Genomics in Latin America

COPYRIGHT 2017 Latin American Studies Association ;Copyright Latin American Studies Association 2017 ;ISSN: 0023-8791 ;EISSN: 1542-4278 ;DOI: 10.25222/larr.41

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