Sandra Brunnegger and Karen Ann Faulk (eds.), A Sense of Justice: Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016), pp. vi + 228, £18.99, pb.

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-674
Author(s):  
TON SALMAN
2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER WADE

The ideology of mestizaje (mixture) in Latin America has frequently been seen as involving a process of national homogenisation and of hiding a reality of racist exclusion behind a mask of inclusiveness. This view is challenged here through the argument that mestizaje inherently implies a permanent dimension of national differentiation and that, while exclusion undoubtedly exists in practice, inclusion is more than simply a mask. Case studies drawn from Colombian popular music, Venezuelan popular religion and Brazilian popular Christianity are used to illustrate these arguments, wherein inclusion is understood as a process linked to embodied identities and kinship relations. In a coda, approaches to hybridity that highlight its potential for destabilising essentialisms are analysed.


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