TY - JOUR
T1 - Patrolling borders
T2 - Hybrids, hierarchies and the challenge of mestizaje
AU - Beltran, Cristina
PY - 2004/12
Y1 - 2004/12
N2 - "Hybridity" has become a popular concept among scholars of critical race theory and identity, particularly hose studying Chicano identity. Some scholars claim that hybridity - premised on multiplicity and fluidity - represents a new approach to subjectivity, challenging the idea of a stable and unified subject. In "Patrolling Borders," I argue that scholars are mistaken in their belief that "hybrid" or "bordered" identities are inherently transgressive or anti-essentialist. By constructing a genealogy of Chicano hybridity (i.e., mestizaje) I show how Chicano nationalists produced a politicized subjectivity during the Chicano Movement that emerged as the basis for recent notions of hybridity put forward by writers like Gloria Anzaldúa. By tracing the historical construction of mestizaje, I show how hybridity continues to be a discursive practice capable of comfortably coexisting with dreams of privileged knowledge, order, and wholeness.
AB - "Hybridity" has become a popular concept among scholars of critical race theory and identity, particularly hose studying Chicano identity. Some scholars claim that hybridity - premised on multiplicity and fluidity - represents a new approach to subjectivity, challenging the idea of a stable and unified subject. In "Patrolling Borders," I argue that scholars are mistaken in their belief that "hybrid" or "bordered" identities are inherently transgressive or anti-essentialist. By constructing a genealogy of Chicano hybridity (i.e., mestizaje) I show how Chicano nationalists produced a politicized subjectivity during the Chicano Movement that emerged as the basis for recent notions of hybridity put forward by writers like Gloria Anzaldúa. By tracing the historical construction of mestizaje, I show how hybridity continues to be a discursive practice capable of comfortably coexisting with dreams of privileged knowledge, order, and wholeness.
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U2 - 10.2307/3219821
DO - 10.2307/3219821
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:13544263557
VL - 57
SP - 595
EP - 607
JO - Political Research Quarterly
JF - Political Research Quarterly
SN - 1065-9129
IS - 4
ER -