Racial fluidity in Latin America carries psychological stress and diminished prospects

Evidence

The fluidity and motility around racial matters across Latin America thus come with the weight of significant historical and cultural baggage. These historical weights of race are always a drag on possibility and psychology. They are stress-producing and diminish life’s prospects by comparison with those not so (directly) weighed down by the burdens of race. … And the burdens may be greater in some cases for women stigmatized by sexualizing innuendo, and at other times for men, dismissed as social wannabees. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1207

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact statement that apparent racial flexibility is itself a burden — the ‘weight of the drag’ on possibility runs against the usual framing of mestizaje as liberation.
• XREF: connects to: Ongoing minority status itself generates chronic psychological stress for reservation Indians. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 475