"Mejorando La Raza" (Improving the Race) through "Mestizaje": The Pedagogy of Anti-Blackness in Ecuador

Autor/in	Johnson, Ethan
Titel	"Mejorando La Raza" (Improving the Race) through "Mestizaje": The Pedagogy of Anti-Blackness in Ecuador
Quelle	In: Comparative Education Review, 67 (2023) 4, S.820-839 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-4086
DOI	10.1086/726612
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Multiracial Persons; Racism; Social Justice; Discourse Analysis; Death; Social Bias; Ecuador + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Mischling; Rassismus; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Diskursanalyse; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall
Abstract	I begin this article with an anecdote to highlight how mestizaje is an anti-Black discourse. In the next section I theorize about "mestizaje" as an anti-Black discourse. There is a relatively new body of scholarship within Black studies called "Afropessimism." This intellectual field has central to it the ideas of the "afterlife of slavery" and "slavery as social death." I make the argument that Blackness in Latin America is one of social death. Following this section, I bring together what Frank Wilderson refers to as "structural adjustment," or the misconstrued effort to provide Blackness with human capacity, with the popular idea in Latin America referred to as "mejorar la raza" (to improve the race). I argue that these two terms are roughly equivalent. In the following section I consider "mestizaje" as a pedagogy and show how it teaches anti-Blackness and social death. In the conclusion, I suggest that we benefit from locating analysis of the Afro-Ecuadoran experience within a framework that centers the social death of Black people. Social death more accurately describes the condition of people of African descent in the region. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01