Latin America replaced killing the Indian with assimilating the Indian into whiteness

Evidence

Latin America differed from both India and South Africa, however, insofar as racial mixing came to define racial latinamericanization. But this mixing became elevated by making the mimicking of the European habitus the defining aspiration, if not the condition of possibility of racial elevation. Where in an earlier historical moment the Indian would be disappeared through violent death, from the late nineteenth century on the vanishing of the Indian was sought through amalgamating metamorphosis, through its own social suicide. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1123 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White majority rule is unique to the Americas among colonized regions; Latin American nation-building consciously alchemized Africans and Indians into a new race; Racial mixing in Latin America replaced violent erasure of Indians with assimilative disappearance. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1123 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial mixing in Latin America replaced violent erasure of Indians with assimilative disappearance. #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1123