Misses and Indigenous Pageants in the Ecuadorian Nation Building
This paper explores the racial, ethnic, and class dimensions of both Miss Ecuador and indigenous beauty pageants. These pageants are suitable for analyzing the persistence of blanqueamiento –whitening— projects in some forms of representation of the Ecuadorian nation. The article opens up a dialogue...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2007 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales |
| Repositorio: | Revista ICONOS |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/222 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/222 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | concursos de belleza raza género etnicidad globalización beauty pageants race gender ethnicity globalization |
| Sumario: | This paper explores the racial, ethnic, and class dimensions of both Miss Ecuador and indigenous beauty pageants. These pageants are suitable for analyzing the persistence of blanqueamiento –whitening— projects in some forms of representation of the Ecuadorian nation. The article opens up a dialogue among diverse studies on beauty pageants in order to explore the inclusions and exclusions in the mainstream beauty canon and in its alternatives. |
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