Mestizo Quotes

“Todos somos un poco mestizos, unos más blancos, otros más morenos. ¡Cuándo dejarán los mexicanos de juzgarse los unos a los otros por el color de la piel! El color, se dijo, es la maldición del Nuevo Mundo.”
― Kathryn S. Blair, A la sombra del ángel

“indigenismo can subvert the colonized mentality found among mestizo peoples that elevates the European and denigrates the Indian. For Chicano/a youth, discovering they have roots in indigenous, often advanced, pre-Columbian cultures can help develop a sense of potential empowerment. "My ancestors invented rubber? Wow!" exclaimed one incredulous Los Angeles gang member to a youth counselor telling him about ancient Mexico and the Olmecas (who didn't exactly invent rubber, since Nature was the inventor, but who surely did develop it). Such discoveries can be a first step toward understanding and respecting the worldview of indigenous peoples.”
― Elizabeth Martínez, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

“To be racially mixed is to represent unity, to
synthesize, to integrate.”
― Ilan Stavans, The United States of Mestizo