Mapping Diversity in Latin America

Mabel MoraÑa is the William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.Miguel A. Valerio is an assistant professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis.

• Introduction: The Question of Race in Latin America (Mabel MoraÑa)Part 1: The Racial Other in Colonial TimesChapter 1: Foundations of Race and Colonialism in Latin America (Amber Brian and MÓnica DÍaz)Chapter 2: Race and the Baroque: Social Actors and Christian Subjects in Seventeenth-Century Lima and Mexico City (Stephanie Kirk)Chapter 3: African Slavery in Latin America (Miguel Valerio)Chapter 4: Race in Eighteenth-Century Spanish America (Mariselle MelÉndez)Part 2: Race and NationChapter 5: Genealogies of Blanquitud/Branquitude: From Critical Race Theory (CRT) to Critical Whiteness Studies (Ruth Hill)Chapter 6: Central America’s Indigenous Peoples: From the Independence to the Consolidation of Exclusionary National Imaginaries, 1810–1930 (Patricia Arroyo Calderon and Marta Elena Casaus ArzÚ)Chapter 7: Reconsidering “the Racial Other”: Nation-building, Citizenship, and Interracial Alliances in Latin America and the Caribbean (Jorge Daniel VÁsquez)Chapter 8: Looking through Layers of Jewishness in Latin America (Ariana Huberman)Chapter 9: Race and Nationalism: Hierarchical Imaginaries, Institutional Racism, and Fantasies about the Mestizo (IvÁn Fernando Rodrigo-MendizÁbal y Marcel VelÁzquez Castro)Chapter 10: Inter-ethnic Conflict and Socio-cultural Contributions of Asian Diasporas in Latin American and the Caribbean (Ignacio LÓpez-Calvo)Chapter 11: Mobilizing Black Culture against Racism: The Negritude Movements in Latin-America (Carlos Alberto Valderrama Renteria)Chapter 12: Beyond Binaries: Genealogies of Mestizaje and Mulataje in AmÉfrica Ladina (Agustin Lao-Montes)Chapter 13: Genealogy of Indigenist Translations: From Colonized Methodologies to Indigenous Self-determination in Peru, Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Christian Elguer)Chapter 14: On Democratic Imaginaries in a Discriminatory Society:The Paradoxes of Racialized Experience in Indigenous and Afro-Brazil (Tracy Devine GuzmÁn)Part 3: Conceptualizing DiversityChapter 15: From Creolization to CrÉolitÉ: Creole Subjectivities and Racial Divisions in Caribbean Societies (Ariel Camejo)Chapter 16: Race Relations in Contemporary Central America: From State Violence to Indigenous Empowerment, 1940s–2021 (Patricia Arroyo CalderÓn and Marta Elena Casaus ArzÚ)Chapter 17: Racializing Sirio-Libaneses in Latin America (Bahia Munem)Chapter 18: Ethno-Racial Landscapes in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile: From Assimilation to Contestation (Gonzalo Aguiar)Chapter 19: Chicanos, Hispanos and Latinos (BÁrbara I. AbadÍa-Rexach)

"This wide ranging and ambitious volume, by cultural studies and literary scholars, offers a uniquely inclusive assessment of the ethnic makeup of Latin America. It synthesizes the now abundant literature on race, ethnicity, and nation in Latin America, moving from colonial foundations to the present, from the southern cone to North America."—Alejandro de la Fuente, coeditor of Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction