The current candidates for President in Peru are a brilliant example of the cultural sillyness of the term "Hispanic" or "Latino."Running for that Spanish-speaking nation's top office are Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso - an indigenous Peruvian from one of the Native American tribes of that nation.
Also former president Alejandro Toledo, and lawmaker Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi, a Peruvian lawmaker of full Japanese ancestry and daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, and lastly former prime minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Humala, Toledo, Fujimori and Kuczynski... all good Hispanic names... Humala is expected to win, but I'm betting on Fujimori.
Hola Lenny,
ReplyDeleteHumala Tasso's mom is italo-peruvian, but Alejandro Toledo, one of the other candidates (onetime president before Alan Garcia) is of full Andean decent.
In any case, did you listen to Ruben Rumbaut interview @ NPR? the other day? he was talking about the "sillyness of these terms. I found several of his writings online and I am currently reading "Pigments of our imagination: On the racialization and racial identities of "hispanics" and "latinos", a very clear explanation of why these terms are in fact more than silly.
Elena
Hi Elena...
ReplyDeleteMakes my point! And then I think Wikkipedia is wrong about Humala... and didn't know about Toledo!
Cheers
Lenny
I agree wit your statement... Nice information...
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