Abstract

MARTINEZ DE ESCOBAR, Rocío Gil. The double bind of racialization: between blackness and indianness in the Mexico-United States border. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2022, vol.58, n.2, pp.142-163.  Epub May 01, 2022. ISSN 0486-6525.  https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472x.2071.

Based on ethnographic and archival research in the Coahuila-Texas borderland between Mexico and the United States, in this essay I examine the historical processes of racialization among the afroindian population of Negros Mascogos / Black Seminoles. I contend that the Negros Mascogos / Black Seminoles have been trapped in a double bind: since the XIX century their relations with two nation-states have led to racialization processes whereby blackness and indianness appear as mutually exclusive. However, some members of the group are reclaiming their afroindianness as a form of resistance. This case provides a complex perspective about racialization. It reveals the importance of understanding its dynamics from a historically, sociospatially grounded, and relational perspective that transcends nation-state borders.

Keywords : racialization; double bind; blackness; indianness; Mexico-United States border.

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