Miscegenation and multiculturalism:

representations of structural racism

Abstract

The causality of systematic exclusion based on racial roots is addressed from a qualitative and interpretive approach based on the hermeneutical paradigm, and supported by documentary review as a research technique. It is intended to understand how the denial of rights derived from the classification ethnic-racial underpins discrimination, justifying racialized social exclusion. It is found that the latent hierarchy in society resides in beliefs based on empty arguments. This is strongly anchored to the recurrent miscegenation ideology in Latin America, where imaginaries of homogeneity are raised around a multicultural framework that claims to recognize multiethnic diversity and cultural traits, deliberately disguising the supposed inclusion consecrated from multiculturalism. It is required to discuss scenarios of inequality, racial problems, and recognition of rights, as an express task of the State, from which the existence and persistence of structural racism is revealed, evidenced in the marked poverty in territories with ethnic minority population.