Mestizaje: forgetfulness that de-form subjects

Abstract

This text seeks to problematize the relationship, given by obvious at times, between Mestizaje and Latin America. Assuming that we do not always question in its foundations what seems obvious, in what gives that condition. That is, the question about the histories of how something becomes obvious is not formulated and is not answered. They are those histories, that we do not inquire, those that give suture to different historical contexts and horizons, in which we develop our existences. Each story involves a selection of memories and forgetfulness, which together legitimize positions, privileges and inequalities within our societies. These stories in Latin America show processes of conjunction and disjunction. In other words, of mestizajes, that they have never been linear and univocal. For example, the Mestizaje works a few times as a colonial recycling or colonial update resource. Someone critical to this position has been Fausto Reinaga, Quechuaymara thinker of the last century, whose work helps us to disrupt the obvious to avoid amnesties of responsibilities in Latin American histories. This taking into account that the Indian Subject is of complex definition, it is as complex as exploring the multiple forms of domination that it has been subject to. The Indian Subject is, in addition to a historical condition, “a political condition”.