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- Title
Race and Ethnic Studies in Latin America: lessons for the United States.
- Authors
Warren, Jonathan; Sue, Christina
- Abstract
There has been extensive debate about the putative imperial dimensions of critical race studies in Latin America. The concern is that U.S. racial discourses, identities and anti-racist strategies are being inappropriately applied to Latin America. Those who disagree with this position, including us, argue that it is legitimate to take insights and understandings gleaned in the United States as tools for challenging racism in Latin America. However we also believe that the exchange of ideas regarding effective anti-racist strategies should flow in both directions. In fact we argue in this paper that those concerned with advancing current thinking about race and racial policy in the U.S. could glean a number of invaluable insights from a more serious study of Latin American racial formations. It is with this aim in mind that we provide an overview of a number of key findings from the historical and social scientific literature on race and racism in Latin America. Specifically we discuss the track record in Latin America of a number of antiracist strategies, which are currently advocated in the U.S. by numerous opinion makers, policy makers and scholars such as race mixing, minimization of racial consciousness, colorblindness, and multiculturalism.
- Subjects
LATIN America; ETHNIC studies; DEBATE; MULTICULTURALISM; RACE discrimination; ETHNOCENTRISM; SOCIAL policy; ETHNOLOGY; LEGISLATORS
- Publication
Impulso, 2008, Vol 18, Issue 45/46, p29
- ISSN
0103-7676
- Publication type
Article