Adopting a hemispheric perspective, this essay problematizes the construct of latinidad by
foregrounding how it reproduces Black erasure. I argue that “Latin America,” rather than …

Land of the Cosmic Race is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that
race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a …

A 2016 Pew report reported that 24 percent of Hispanics identify as Afro-Latinxs, but
researchers know very little about the significance of Afro-Latinx identity and how it …

Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English--in fact, the first book in any language in more than
two decades--to address what it means to be black in Peru. Based on extensive …

This article explores how race and color labels are used to describe people in an Afro-
Peruvian community. This article is based on analyses of 88 interviews and 18 months of …

This article argues that social patterns of inequality and structures of partisan competition
play central roles in shaping support for redistribution, offering three important insights …

We examine sources of indigenous identity in the two countries with the largest indigenous
populations in the Western Hemisphere—Mexico and Peru. We find that the size of the …

What accounts for variation in racial identification in the Americas? An influential first
generation of race scholarship attributed contemporary racial schemas to the cultural …

Recent research has examined how racial ideologies vary across national contexts, but
relatively few scholars have investigated how ideologies might be transmitted across …

Upon arrival to the United States, Mexican immigrants are racialized as simultaneously non-
White and" illegal." This racialization process complicates notions of race that they bring with …