1st Edition

The Turn to Racism and Anti-racism in Latin America

Edited By Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Peter Wade Copyright 2025
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

This book highlights the growing mainstream focus on racism and anti- racism in Latin America. It reveals the diverse social transformation projects addressing racism, reflecting a complexity not previously evident. Inspired by a research project involving Indigenous and Black organizations, the chapters in this book explore cases in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico, where anti- racist... Read more

Introduction: The turn to racism and anti-racism in Latin America
Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa and Peter Wade

1. Images as traps: Asserting blackness, challenging racism
Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa

2. Calling racism by its name: Direct violence and the explicit recognition of racism among Indigenous peoples
María Moreno Parra

3. Unpacking the “fluidity” of Mestizaje: How anti-indigenous and anti-black racism determine social relations and economic destinations of Mestizos
Emiko Saldivar, Erika Arenas and Cecile Binmoeller

4. Ethnic and racial violence and violations: A study of Black and Quilombola populations

Flavia Rios and Lara Miranda

5. Anti-racism, aesthetic empowerment and micro-enterprises: Black women’s subversive entrepreneurship
Krisna Ruette-Orihuela, Mara Viveros Vigoya, Danny Ramírez Torres, Emilia Eneyda Valencia-Murraín, Lina Lucumí-Mosquera

6. Anti-racist Alliances and Solidarities: Typologies, cases and experiences
Gisela Carlos Fregoso

7. Struggles against racism: Lessons from Latin America
Peter Wade

 

 

Biography

Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, specializing in race, racism, feminist theory, and visual methodologies and applied research collaborations. Recently she researched anti- racism in Latin America and internalized oppression. Currently, she’s developing a research programme focused on global racisms and social transformation.

Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He has worked on issues of racial, ethnic, and national identities in Latin America, particularly Colombia, and the construction of biology, genetics, and culture in ideas about race. He recently led a project on anti-racism and participated in a project looking at comics and race in Latin America.