We examine a vast, interdisciplinary, and increasingly global literature concerning skin color
and colorism, which are related to status throughout the world. The vast majority of research …

The use of intersectionality theory in the social sciences has proliferated in the past several
years, putting forward the argument that the interconnected identities of individuals, and the …

Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America
(PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race …

After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states
began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to …

Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey (N= 1,197), we examine the
relationship between physical and mental health status and three multidimensional …

For the first time, most Latin American censuses ask respondents to self-identify by race or
ethnicity allowing researchers to examine long-ignored ethnoracial inequalities. However …

Miguel Gonzalez, introduced in the first chapter, marked “white” for his race on the census,
explaining,“'cause I'm an American, right?” This link between whiteness and American …

Despite different origins,“Hispanic” and “Latino” are often used interchangeably to describe
people with Latin American ancestry in the United States. Nevertheless, research …

This article analyses the conflicting understandings surrounding the recognition of anti-black
racism in Mexico, drawing from an analysis of the 2005 controversy around Memín Pinguín …

Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the history, culture, and politics of
Latin America. In Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom, Peter Wade draws on a …