It’s difficult to be a man, but it’s even more difficult to be an indigenous man: in/EXISTING masculine identities
This article deals with the complex pro-cesses of identity construction in indigenous men. By incorporating the concept of “In/EXISTING identities” it seeks to account for a process that takes place in a contradictory manner. The prefix “in” intends to indicate both th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad del Valle
2018-08-01
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| Series: | La Manzana de la Discordia |
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| Online Access: | http://manzanadiscordia.univalle.edu.co/index.php/la_manzana_de_la_discordia/article/view/6735/9336 |
| Summary: | This article deals with the complex pro-cesses of identity construction in indigenous men. By incorporating the concept of “In/EXISTING identities” it seeks to account for a process that takes place in a contradictory manner. The prefix “in” intends to indicate both the existence and nonexistence of indigenous mas-culine identities that often “disappear” as in the case of the forced disappearance of the Azyotzinapa students in 2014. International law links the marginalization of in-digenous peoples in the Americas to the lack of recogni-tion of their rights, undermined by Western ethnocentric principles based on a notion of “white, blond, strong, successful manhood”. A feminist approach, calling for the fight against hierarchies and inequalities, and the giving of voice to “minorities” is incorporated, along with a concept of justice as a principle that requires equal opportunities for everyone regardless of sex, race, or ethnic group. Social inequalities are examined as his-torical and social constructions. Being a man is learned, and re-learned through complex socialization processes that in the case of indigenous identities require identify-ing Western constructs. Indigenous men experience such processes under conditions of economic, political, and sociocultural inequality, reaffirming their generic ethnic-ity in subaltern conditions. Some struggle to re-signify; others die trying. |
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| ISSN: | 1900-7922 2500-6738 |