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 …

Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become
a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. It has courted much …

Scholars argue that Latin American ideologies of mestizaje, or racial mixing, mask
ethnoracial discrimination. We examine popular explanations for indigenous or …

Conclusion If the popular media in the United States was a gauge of the actual state of
things, one would think that mixed race issues were relatively new and demographically …

There has been extensive debate about the putative imperial dimensions of critical race
studies in Latin America. The concern is that US racial discourses, identities and anti-racist …

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

There is a prevailing view in Mexico that blacks don't exist in ways that they exist in other
countries; that there may be some people with some black ancestry, but they are not pure …

Mexico's unique form of mestizaje has successfully excluded Afro-descendants from
Mexican national imaginary for decades, treating Afro-Mexicans as though they do not exist …

Conclusion If the popular media in the United States was a gauge of the actual state of
things, one would think that mixed race issues were relatively new and demographically …

An up-close view of the movement to make “Afro-Mexican” an official cultural category
Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico delves into the ongoing …