Mestizo meaning Spaniard and Azteca or other indigenous ancestry of course. It really bothers me my girlfriends brother is like this (she’s latina from Cuba). Plays up the Spaniard and Aztec part of his heritage and denigrates blacks and Asians.
Yes he looks like a 4chan user
Same reason other folks that were considered non-white by Anglo rules went down that path: a faction opened up to accept them at the expense of another group to marginalize. US society has always made sure that it is primarily black people who get marginalized, but others are often along for the ride as part of reaction. Right now, reaction is fixated on trans people as well and they use transphobia as a recruitment tool.
That’s a proximal (and still partial, of course) explanation.
Material conditions are a huge actor behind all of it. Simple demographics makes the maintenance of current overt white supremacist race rules less and less tenable without (re)instituting explicit apartheid or other forms of explicit violence that aren’t on the table (yet). Marginalized groups serve as a valuable scapegoat for bourgeois interests, especially during degrading conditions: it’s not the owners’ fault you got fired, things are bad due to X group stealing your job, moral decay from a loss of traditional values, and Y group not contributing their “fair share”. Marginalization also serves to create an underclass that can become more exploited, mistreated, and underserved than the overclasses (basically by definition), which is also invaluable for the illusion of progress and material gain for workers that would otherwise discover solidarity through shared dignity.
So, marginalization is reproduced by capitalism and the targets shift over time through a mishmash of causes. The important part is that those changes that bring (parts of) a marginalized group into the mainstream will come at the expense of another, as capitalism is degrading imperial core conditions through its internal processes and will fight against the ruling class taking the blame.
The short of it is that shit is going down and there’s a subset of hispanic people that are becoming “white” in terms of US racial categorizations, feeding into existing anti-black and related reactionary cultures just like Irish and Italians did, albeit with today’s cultural flavors.
Because they can be just as susceptible to right wing propaganda as anyone else. Also racisim/colorism is a thing in Latin America. There were dictators in LA from the 30-60s that drew inspiration from European fascists and had “whitening” or “Europeanization” campaigns where they brought immigrants from Europe and marginalized colored people.
Better explanation by @RNAi and @Redcuban1959 , thanks for the correction:100-com:
30-60s that drew inspiration from European fascists
Not really, Blanqueamiento, Branqueamento or Whitening existed since the 1860s. There was a great belief that free Afro-descendants would outnumber the Euro-descendant and mestizo/pardo population, so there was the implementation in some countries like Brazil and Paraguay, that the child of an Afro-Latino/Native with white/mestizo would be to be “purer”, as the “bad” genes would end up being destroyed by the “superior” genes.
It’s very dumb and racist, but at the time it was created to be contrary to Europe and North America’s idea of segregation and banning interracial marriage. I think José Vasconcelos Calderón wrote a book about the ideal race that was a mixture of all “races”, it was progressive for the time but it’s still wrong because race is just shit invented to separate us.
Hell, you could argue it owes its origins to ideas generated in the first iteration of the Caste system during the days of the Spanish Empire.
It’s very dumb and racist, but at the time it was created to be contrary to Europe and North America’s idea of segregation and banning interracial marriage.
There were some exceptions in the Anglosphere and Europe where a similar idea of “mixing out” the supposedly inferior race had some traction, like with aboriginals in Australia and natives in some parts of French Africa.
30 - 60’
That goes waaay back, at least here in Arg that exact same phrases were said by genocidal presidents from the 1870 (genocidal against native americans). The fredos & manolos mass migration started around 1880, among them my great gramps, and it wasn’t a coincidence, it was a deliberate plan.
Latin America is full of reactionaries. The only reason ones in America vote Democrat is because they’re historical ties to labor. But as the democrats increasingly appeal to the wealthy college educated class, Hispanics will start turning to reactionary politics.
If you’re around hispanic communities they’re still very big on traditional values in the home, religion, sexuality, etc. Their beliefs are pretty similar to my It*lian relatives.
Many are also several generations deep in the US so assimilation, even among the mestizo, crowd is underway.
This is from a white guy who works along Hispanics and lives in a 90% Hispanic neighborhood so take it with a grain of salt.
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