Abstrakt
What is the legacy of the coloni(ali)zed Peruvian/Liman body and embodiment and how is it reflected in the contemporary neoliberalized Peruvian/Liman corporality? The paper offers a brief, yet exciting journey into the specificity of inter-racial/inter-class relations in colonial and contemporary Peru, especially Lima, and how these relations have changed, yet somewhat persisted, in the capitalized country even within 200 years of its independency. In other words and in quite a neocolonial manner, Limans have turned the once exogenous biopolitical colonization into their own, endogenous colonization/socialization through the consensual application upon themselves of the colonizers' racist biopolitical optics including their recent classist modifications developed by the local neoliberalized consumer creativity.
In my narrative, I navigate through concepts such as racialization of Peruvian social geography; colonial caste system (Sistema de castas) based on biosocial and political domination of the whiter castes towards the indio, indigenous, and negro castes; local forms of racism and classism; normalization and in/visibilization of local violence and its effect on local communication; body-screen as well as do I deal with local inter-racial groups such as mestizos, criollos and cholos.