ABSTRACT

Transnational lives include not only the mobility of individuals, but of racialized discourses that reinforce and sustain inequalities and exclusion. Building on the seminal work of migration scholars Grosfoguel, Oso, and Christou, this article brings together Quijano's coloniality of power with cultural critic Aviles’s insights on contemporary forms of discrimination and anthropologist Briones’s conceptualization of ‘internal Others’ to center racialization in approaching contemporary middle-class Peruvian identities across borders. I suggest that similarly to how racialization is key to the processes of creating internal Others in Peru, middle-class Peruvians seek to assert higher status in relation to other migrants in the U.S. and Canada by employing discourses of indigeneity and internal Others. These forms of status-marking through racialization and differentiation are central to contemporary peruanidad within and beyond Peru’s physical borders, and to understanding the role of race, racism, and coloniality of thought among Peruvians outside Peru.

摘要

跨国生活不仅包括个人的流动，还包括加强和维持不平等和排斥的种族化话语。本文以移民学者 Grosfoguel、Oso 和 Christou 的开创性工作为基础，将 Quijano 的权力殖民与文化评论家 Aviles 对当代歧视形式的见解以及人类学家 Briones 将“内部他者”的概念化结合起来，以在接近当代中产阶级时以种族化为中心。跨越国界对秘鲁的身份进行分类。我认为，类似于种族化是秘鲁创造内部他人的过程的关键，秘鲁中产阶级通过使用土著和内部他人的话语，寻求在美国和加拿大的其他移民中获得更高的地位。