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part of my reason for putting out the critique i did in Brazilian was to undermine the authority of the loudest latinx i was in closest proximity to at the time—who were often gusanos. these university based latinx...
tended to make anticommunist claims abt latin america while also claiming to speak for entire countries (which is exactly what the university in its functional sense likes them to do). by pointing to racial divisions & the antiblackness & racism of mestizaje...
& latinidad, i hoped to make it harder for them to claim to speak for entire latin american countries when they talked abt the antiblackness & racism of marxism / communism / anarchism—while saying nothing abt the connection b/t anticommunism antiblackness...
colonialism & fascism in latin american countries—or abt how important a role anticommunism has played in the mass murder of Black / Indigenous / broke ppl in latin america. but it is once again important to not confuse racial identities for political commitments...
& this is where the part of Brazilian focused on the plan of san diego is important. my hope was not just to illuminate the fact of racial divisions among so called latinx, but to also point to radical histories of struggle...
against the US, colonialism, capitalism, antiblackness & racism that those most adversly affected by those things have participated in & do participate in—in latin america & the US & elsewhere. that isnt to say that all those most adversly affected by those things participate...
in radical struggle. they do not—some even participate in empire in ways similar to the way definitely not white mx-am work for border patrol. i say this b/c the way radical critiques of mestizaje & latinidad are being & will be coopted by the university...
will reduce those critiques to arguments for a more rigorous politics of representation that will end up supporting the claims of the gusanos whose authority i was trying to undermine. it isnt enough to be of this or that race...
that in itself isnt radical—communism / socialism / anarchism—anticapitalism—the radical lives among all these & will evolve—but the politics of representation / a politics of inclusion will never be radical—
even if the university ends up attempting to use radical critiques of mestizaje & latinidad to make it seem otherwise.
