Patrolling Borders

Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje

Bibliographic Data

ID6340633
AuthorsCristina Beltrán (Haverford College, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume57
Issue4
Pages595
Publication date2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Research Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3219821
OpenAlexW4233926783
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited17

Hybridity” has become a popular concept among scholars of critical race theory and identity, particularly those 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 antiessentialist. 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

Aesthetics · Biology · Epistemology · Genealogy · Hybrid · Hybridity · Identity (music · Patrolling · Political science · Race (biology · Racialization · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Transgressive · Anthropology · Computer Science · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Geography and Education Methods · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Cultural Politics · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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