Mestizaje ideology excludes those deemed insufficiently mixed.

Evidence

In a social imaginary elevating mestizaje to the embodiment of national identity, of national stature, mixture accordingly (as Peter Wade remarks in discussing Norman Whitten’s seminal work on Ecuador) serves – or, more tellingly, has served – to excise those deemed not mixed, or not mixed enough, from the social corpus. Indians are assimilated by the process of whitening, or otherwise at least ignored if not devastated. African populations – visibly, productively, and powerfully present from the late sixteenth century if largely in provincialized pockets – are rendered invisible. They are marginalized to remote corners of the nation-state. Once out of sight they are close to being out of the national mind unless they act up politically or are later just made to act “natural” in terms of the tourist economy. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1145

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Morrison’s ‘distancing Africanism’ and the broader ‘inclusion that masks exclusion’ pattern relevant to how contact narratives coexist with institutional discrimination.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1145