Pub Date : 2022-12-02DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2022.2152266
L. Stephen
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Pub Date : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2022.2127632
T. Muniz
ABSTRACT Rejected a priori in the biomedical field as a category that has no meaning for clinical practice, race maintains an absent presence that spans techno-scientific productions and the daily practices of health professionals. Race constitutes a type of infrastructure that is rarely treated critically and that can be given as supporting evidence in scientific practices. It appears as an unexpected effect of biomedical technology that is actually centered around ideals of whiteness that it projects as universal. This exposes the limitations of biomedical technology to reach ‘other bodies’—those that are not white – labeled as resistant to biotechnological intervention. By looking at ultrasound performance in diagnostic testing for glaucoma, this article discusses how whiteness, racism, and technological ‘neutrality’ are articulated in the materialization of race in diagnostic technological devices and health intervention in Brazil.
{"title":"“The guy is blind but appears normal according to diagnostic parameters”: a reflection on racism, whiteness, and the ‘neutrality’ of technology in the biomedical field in Brazil","authors":"T. Muniz","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2022.2127632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2022.2127632","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Rejected a priori in the biomedical field as a category that has no meaning for clinical practice, race maintains an absent presence that spans techno-scientific productions and the daily practices of health professionals. Race constitutes a type of infrastructure that is rarely treated critically and that can be given as supporting evidence in scientific practices. It appears as an unexpected effect of biomedical technology that is actually centered around ideals of whiteness that it projects as universal. This exposes the limitations of biomedical technology to reach ‘other bodies’—those that are not white – labeled as resistant to biotechnological intervention. By looking at ultrasound performance in diagnostic testing for glaucoma, this article discusses how whiteness, racism, and technological ‘neutrality’ are articulated in the materialization of race in diagnostic technological devices and health intervention in Brazil.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"269 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48299558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2022.2087301
L. Giraudo, Emilio J. Gallardo-Saborido
ABSTRACT This special issue—‘Indigenismo on Stage: Artistic Expression and the Inter-American Indigenista Movement in the Mid-Twentieth Century’—aims to present the staging of indigenismo by analyzing its ‘indianizing’ side. The process we call ‘indianization’ consists of promoting the recognition of indigenous cultural and especially artistic ‘specificities’, as determined by the inter-American indigenismo that consolidated in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, starting with the first Inter-American Conference on Indian Life in 1940. Concretely, this special issue addresses the staging of indigenist indianization in two crucial domains: 1) ‘indigenous’ artistic expression as it was promoted by indigenismo; and 2) the abstraction/generalization of ‘indigeneity’ and ‘indigenous people’ that operationalized and successfully spread this indigenismo. These two concerns bring together the contributions to this issue (articles, a review essay, and a collective dialogue), which explicitly adopt a transnational perspective or, when they focus on specific countries, consider their indigenist connections to the rest of the Americas. Grounded on the analysis of a notable variety of objects of study (statuary, music, handicrafts, photography, engraving, and theatre), this special issue follows an itinerary that runs from the early twentieth century to the present.
{"title":"Staging indianización/staging indigenismo: artistic expression, representation of the ‘Indian’ and the inter-American indigenista movement","authors":"L. Giraudo, Emilio J. Gallardo-Saborido","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2022.2087301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2022.2087301","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special issue—‘Indigenismo on Stage: Artistic Expression and the Inter-American Indigenista Movement in the Mid-Twentieth Century’—aims to present the staging of indigenismo by analyzing its ‘indianizing’ side. The process we call ‘indianization’ consists of promoting the recognition of indigenous cultural and especially artistic ‘specificities’, as determined by the inter-American indigenismo that consolidated in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, starting with the first Inter-American Conference on Indian Life in 1940. Concretely, this special issue addresses the staging of indigenist indianization in two crucial domains: 1) ‘indigenous’ artistic expression as it was promoted by indigenismo; and 2) the abstraction/generalization of ‘indigeneity’ and ‘indigenous people’ that operationalized and successfully spread this indigenismo. These two concerns bring together the contributions to this issue (articles, a review essay, and a collective dialogue), which explicitly adopt a transnational perspective or, when they focus on specific countries, consider their indigenist connections to the rest of the Americas. Grounded on the analysis of a notable variety of objects of study (statuary, music, handicrafts, photography, engraving, and theatre), this special issue follows an itinerary that runs from the early twentieth century to the present.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"389 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48273656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2022.2130669
H. Toombs
ABSTRACT For the indigenous Lenca people of western Honduras, pottery production represents an economically and spiritually important tradition. Historically exchanged in regional trade networks, pottery is still produced today. However, this tradition is changing due to socioeconomic and political development. Lenca pottery has shifted from utilitarian wares to more aesthetic pieces favored by tourists – a change encouraged by state constructions of national identity. Promotion of what are considered ‘marketable’ indigenous crafts and attractions in the tourism industry has resulted in misconceptions among domestic and international tourists regarding distinct indigenous tradition – like Lenca pottery. Drawing on nine months of fieldwork in the Lenca community of La Campa, Lempira, this research note examines how contemporary pottery tradition may be shaped by state constructions of indigenous heritage and identity, which are reproduced through the national tourism industry. Through the application of neoliberal multiculturalism, this work explores how these political processes restrict Lenca craft producers from benefitting from tourism. To conclude, this article presents empirical evidence suggesting that despite these obstacles, Lenca artisans in La Campa maintain pottery production as a livelihood through innovative choices in altering selling and production methods.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2022.2120730
M. Mendoza, B. Mazza, G. S. Cabana, Lindsay Smith, F. Di Fabio Rocca, H. Delfino, C. Martínez
ABSTRACT We examined the self-reported family trees of 288 adult Argentines from a mid-size city near Buenos Aires to evaluate how intergenerational transmission of ancestry information matched (or not) anonymized estimates of continental-level genetic ancestry. Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information was inferred from the content of the anonymized family trees, and continental-level ancestries were inferred from genomic information collected from the participants. We found a high degree of concordance between genetic ancestry estimates and the transmission of ancestry information in ancestors born in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. We found the reverse in ancestors who were Indigenous American, sub-Saharan African, or their descendants. Yet, the existence of those ancestors was evident in the genetic ancestry estimates. We extrapolated the presence of such ancestries in family trees post hoc by deducing that some ancestors identified as ‘Argentine’ in family trees were likely of mixed Indigenous- and non-Indigenous-descent, and possibly also sub-Saharan African descent. We describe these findings as products of a process of attrition, in which some ancestries, but not others, have been forgotten (knowingly or unknowingly) over the course of generations, to the point that participants were unaware that ethno-racial mixing occurred within their own families.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-12DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2022.2121110
Hugo Ceron‐Anaya, Patricia de Santana Pinho, A. Ramos-Zayas
ABSTRACT This introductory essay outlines and contributes to fulfill the major goals of this special issue: 1) The examination of whiteness in Latin America in its articulation with broader social hierarchies, and 2) The development of a conceptual and theoretical roadmap for the study of whiteness in the region. The essay is divided into five substantive sections through which we develop our main arguments. In the first section, we offer a brief and admittedly incomplete overview of the literature on race in Latin America, paying particular attention to how whiteness was, until recently, rendered peripheral or entirely absent. In the second section, we consider the concept of ‘ordinary whiteness’ and its usefulness for capturing the often taken-for-granted aspects of white privilege and the everyday ways through which whiteness organizes routines, perspectives, subjectivities, and affects. In the third section, we approach the intersection of race and class to examine the materiality of whiteness in the multiple forms of economic, cultural, and symbolic capital. In the fourth section, we examine the politics of race, space, and (im)mobility in the production of whiteness in the region. In the last part, we conclude with a commentary on the methodological and epistemological challenges of studying whiteness in Latin America.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2022.2113308
L. Stephen
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Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2022.2109381
Mónica L. Espinosa Arango
ABSTRACT This article examines the southwest Colombian Andes indigenous peoples’ active participation as ‘demos’ in Colombia´s modern polity and democratic politics. Despite a long-term pattern of nonrecognition, their ‘against-the-grain democracy’ emerges from sedimented experiences of collectivism and intercultural experimentalism. The resulting indigenous politics expands the horizon of commonality and calls for new interpretations of the political. This work is based on long-term research on twentieth-century ideas and political texts by Nasa, Misak, and Pijao pueblos, on an examination of their leaders´ biographies, and on my extensive research on Manuel Quintín Lame´s twentieth-century social movement leadership. I examine the inter-dependency of popular republicanism and struggles for citizenship that began in the nineteenth century, with the dynamics of collectivism and commonality that converge in the strong grassroots, indigenous-oriented politics of the twentieth century. My analysis is enlightened by Sheldon Wolin´s interpretations of democracy, commonality, elemental politics, the liberal dilemmas of recognition, and Cristina Roja´s reflections on nonrecognition.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2022.2104067
S. Roncador
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the problematic relation of whiteness and servitude in mid to late-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, when a fast-growing number of Portuguese female migrants, mostly from the Azorean islands, sought employment in households where domestic service had been hitherto associated with black slavery. As I argue, the accounts of elite domestic lives in popular print cultures at the time reveal a nascent narrative of ‘servant crisis’—e.g. the conviction that reliable servants were disappearing in Brazil – in reaction to the alternative work arrangements and new types of servants, which began defining domestic service over the decades leading toward the abolition of chattel slavery (1888). In fact, the vicissitudes of labor during these pre-emancipation decades set the stage for the earliest version of the ‘servant crisis’ trope that has characterized the national elites’ discourse about domesticity up to this day.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2022.2099170
Macarena Bonhomme
ABSTRACT In the context of rising South-South migration to Chile, this article examines how Chileans redefine and claim whiteness in a multicultural working-class neighborhood in Santiago. It contributes to regional racial studies by analyzing how whiteness is constructed in multicultural neighborhoods where different national and racialized identities that share a colonial past converge, and where the nation-state has historically pursued a progressive whitening through the adoption of racist state policies. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I show how Chileans construct a white racial identity vis-à-vis the presence of, and through ordinary interactions with, Latin American and Caribbean migrants. As is the case elsewhere, in contemporary Chile whiteness is an ongoing everyday social construct that is not only conveyed as a discourse, but also through the practice or performance of power in the social textures of urban life. Making and enacting whiteness becomes a way in which racial hierarchies of belonging are materialized to achieve a higher status in an unequal racialized society. This study reveals how Chileans claim to be ‘white(r)’ than the South-South migrants they interact with, reproducing a Chilean hegemonic discourse about national identity, through the many practices of everyday life. The article’s main argument is that making whiteness through these ordinary occurrences reproduces anti-indigenous and anti-black racism.
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