*Welcome to another edition of the #Nerdflow Newsletter!* I recently finished reading The Mestizo Augustine: A Theologian Between Two Cultures by historian and theologian Justo González. It’s a remarkable portrait of St. Augustine that highlights overlooked aspects of his identity and culturally mixed world. The book also reminded me of the problems with the mestizaje discourse that is popular within some Latinx intellectual circles. Us mixed people will not save the world from injustice, I’m sorry to say.
The Problems with Mestizaje
The Problems with Mestizaje
The Problems with Mestizaje
*Welcome to another edition of the #Nerdflow Newsletter!* I recently finished reading The Mestizo Augustine: A Theologian Between Two Cultures by historian and theologian Justo González. It’s a remarkable portrait of St. Augustine that highlights overlooked aspects of his identity and culturally mixed world. The book also reminded me of the problems with the mestizaje discourse that is popular within some Latinx intellectual circles. Us mixed people will not save the world from injustice, I’m sorry to say.