Common Ways to See Differently: Race, Mestizaje, and Criollismo as Seen by Blind People in Chile and Venezuela
This article explores understandings of race, mestizaje, and criollismo among blind people in Chile and Venezuela. It demonstrates that visually perceived markers are not self-evidently constitutive of race as a social category. Participants show sound knowledge of racialized categories but also rev...
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| description | This article explores understandings of race, mestizaje, and criollismo among blind people in Chile and Venezuela. It demonstrates that visually perceived markers are not self-evidently constitutive of race as a social category. Participants show sound knowledge of racialized categories but also reveal significant differences in the identification of racial markers and in the way that race informs their understandings of mestizaje and criollismo in Chile and Venezuela. In Chile, where racial markers convey identity fixity and intersect overtly with social class categorizations, mestizaje and criollismo are conceptualized as separate elements of national identity. In Venezuela, where racial markers convey more identity porosity, mestizaje and criollismo are conceptualized as intertwined foundations of national identity. These social configurations counter naturalizing conceptualizations of race and enable a reconsideration of how different notions of admixture continue to permeate ideals of personhood and social relations in Latin American countries. They also erode academic conceptualizations of race that unwittingly contribute to legitimize the naturalization of race in public discourse—and potentially in governmental policy and practice. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-516a051ca4c94471b4740ef5ccf1faaf2025-01-16T21:53:02ZengCambridge University PressLatin American Research Review1542-427811810.1017/lar.2024.67Common Ways to See Differently: Race, Mestizaje, and Criollismo as Seen by Blind People in Chile and VenezuelaLuis Angosto-Ferrández0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4459-208XUniversity of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaThis article explores understandings of race, mestizaje, and criollismo among blind people in Chile and Venezuela. It demonstrates that visually perceived markers are not self-evidently constitutive of race as a social category. Participants show sound knowledge of racialized categories but also reveal significant differences in the identification of racial markers and in the way that race informs their understandings of mestizaje and criollismo in Chile and Venezuela. In Chile, where racial markers convey identity fixity and intersect overtly with social class categorizations, mestizaje and criollismo are conceptualized as separate elements of national identity. In Venezuela, where racial markers convey more identity porosity, mestizaje and criollismo are conceptualized as intertwined foundations of national identity. These social configurations counter naturalizing conceptualizations of race and enable a reconsideration of how different notions of admixture continue to permeate ideals of personhood and social relations in Latin American countries. They also erode academic conceptualizations of race that unwittingly contribute to legitimize the naturalization of race in public discourse—and potentially in governmental policy and practice.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1542427824000671/type/journal_articleChileVenezuelacriollomestizajeraceindigeneityChileVenezuelaCriollomestizajecarreraindigeneidad |
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| title | Common Ways to See Differently: Race, Mestizaje, and Criollismo as Seen by Blind People in Chile and Venezuela |
| title_full | Common Ways to See Differently: Race, Mestizaje, and Criollismo as Seen by Blind People in Chile and Venezuela |
| title_fullStr | Common Ways to See Differently: Race, Mestizaje, and Criollismo as Seen by Blind People in Chile and Venezuela |
| title_full_unstemmed | Common Ways to See Differently: Race, Mestizaje, and Criollismo as Seen by Blind People in Chile and Venezuela |
| title_short | Common Ways to See Differently: Race, Mestizaje, and Criollismo as Seen by Blind People in Chile and Venezuela |
| title_sort | common ways to see differently race mestizaje and criollismo as seen by blind people in chile and venezuela |
| topic | Chile Venezuela criollo mestizaje race indigeneity Chile Venezuela Criollo mestizaje carrera indigeneidad |
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