Giovanny Castillo Figueroa He is an anthropologist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, master and doctor in Anthropological Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centro de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Chiapas y la Frontera Sur (cimsur), at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, as well as member of the Grupo de Estudios Afrocolombianos. Her research topics revolve around the narratives of identity and otherness and the processes of racialization and ethnicity among Afro-descendant subjects, particularly from Mexico and Colombia. She has also conducted ethnographic research with coastal fishermen, investigating, among other things, empirical knowledge, work techniques and technologies, labor relations and symbolic imaginaries.

Realidades socioculturales

Revueltos, Grijos and Puchuncos: Racialization, Identity and Miscegenation in a Town of the Costa Chica of Guerrero

  • Giovanny Castillo Figueroa

Keywords: otherness, identity, miscegenation, racialization, race.

This article presents an ethnographic discussion of the processes of racialization, mestizaje and the construction of identity/alterity in Punta Maldonado (El Faro), Costa Chica, Guerrero. First, it examines the concepts of race and racialization in order to understand how physical attributes have been used in the marking and hierarchization of differences; it then explores the meanings of some locally used categories that show how physical appearance, particularly hair, is socially perceived and interpreted in El Faro. Finally, it analyzes how the idea of mixture is thought of and incorporated in the narratives of El Faro. and incorporated into the collective identity narratives of this place.