La invención de la raza hispanoamericana y lo mestizo. Raza, antropología y nación en Colombia 1930-1940

Abstract

This article presents some of the readings on race, Mestizaje and Hispanicism in the work of Gregorio Hernández de Alba, co-founder of Colombia’s National Ethnological Institute. In his writings race gives a turn from eugenic notions of race in Colombia into a cultured reading of Mestizaje as national project. His definition of race sought to re-racialize the bodies of the inhabitants of South America by culturing them. It produced the mestizo: the de-indianization of the bodies and the hispanization of those de-indianized bodies. The mestizo race was called Hispanic American. This version of the nation was constructed contradictorily with the elements of the cultural reconquest of Latin America offered by Hispanism between 1910 and 1950. Race, Nation, Hispanicism, History of anthropology, Hernández de Alba

Keywords

• Raza
• Nación
• Hispanismo
• Mestizaje
• Gregorio Hernández de Alba
• Historia de la antropología