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A partir de una perspectiva situada a considerable distancia de una admisión sin problematizaciones del programa cultural del humanista dominicano Pedro Henríquez Ureña, se acomete una lectura crítica de la teoría del mestizaje como fuente de armonía e integración sociocultural de Hispanoamérica que enhebra gran parte de sus textos. Se pretende averiguar si la idea del mestizaje, en el que se involucra el elemento autóctono y español, se lleva adelante merced a algunas selecciones estratégicas, por ejemplo, el recorte de una imagen de Hispanoamérica a expensas del área caribeña y, consecuentemente, de otras reservas étnicas existentes. Por otro lado, se plantea si el recurso de la fusión o mestizaje no resulta, a la postre, un modo solapado de eludir la conflictividad e inestabilidad cultural del Continente. Finalmente, se busca ponderar las causas por la cuales se adhiere firmemente al humanismo como una doctrina conveniente para el curso de la argumentación armonizadora de los elementos diferenciados, sin descuidar algunas notas positivistas que podrían perdurar en las alusiones a la raza. From a perspective located at a considerable distance from an admission without any problematics of the cultural program of the Dominican humanist Pedro Henríquez Ureña, we propose a critical reading of the theory of miscegenation as a source of harmony and sociocultural integration of Hispanic-America that threads a great amount of the author ́s texts. Our working hypothesis tries to question the idea of Miscegenation, in which the autochthonous and Spanish elements interfere, and functions at the mercy of some strategic selections; for example, the clipping of an image of Spanish America at the expense of the Caribbean area and, consequently, of other existing ethnic reserves. On the other hand, we propose that the resource of the merger or miscegenation does not prove, at last, a sly way of eluding the conflict and cultural instability of the continent. Finally, we wish to consider the reasons for which he sticks fast and firmly to humanism as a suitable doctrine to set the course for an argumentation of harmony for these very different elements, without neglecting any positivists notes which might last in the allusions to race. Fil: Maiz, Claudio Gustavo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina

From a perspective located at a considerable distance from an admission without any problematics of the cultural program of the Dominican humanist Pedro Henriquez Urena, we propose a critical reading of the theory of miscegenation as a source of harmony and sociocultural integration of Hispanic-America that threads a great amount of the author´s texts. Our working hypothesis tries to question the idea of Miscegenation, in which the autochthonous and Spanish elements interfere, and functions at the mercy of some strategic selections; for example, the clipping of an image of Spanish America at the expense of the Caribbean area and, consequently, of other existing ethnic reserves. On the other hand, we propose that the resource of the merger or miscegenation does not prove, at last, a sly way of eluding the conflict and cultural instability of the continent. Finally, we wish to consider the reasons for which he sticks fast and firmly to humanism as a suitable doctrine to set the course for an argumentation of harmony for these very different elements, without neglecting any positivists notes which might last in the allusions to race.