Mapping Diversity in Latin America

Barbara I. Abadia-Rexach, Gonzalo Aguiar, Marta Elena Casaus Arzu, Amber Brian, Patricia Arroyo Calderon, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, Ariel Camejo, Marcel Velazquez Castro

Mapping Diversity in Latin America
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Country
United States
Published
15 January 2025
Pages
700
ISBN
9780826507259

Mapping Diversity in Latin America

Barbara I. Abadia-Rexach, Gonzalo Aguiar, Marta Elena Casaus Arzu, Amber Brian, Patricia Arroyo Calderon, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, Ariel Camejo, Marcel Velazquez Castro

Mapping Diversity in Latin America offers ample critical coverage of recent approaches to the historical study of race and ethnicity in Latin America since the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese colonizers to the present. Bringing together the work of leading scholars, this volume presents readers with a thorough and updated examination of the formation and evolution of ideas surrounding race and ethnicity, social movements, and political processes in Latin America that provides multiple routes for future research on the topic. The book's nineteen chapters establish the basis for a productive comparative analysis of racial developments in the whole continent to allow for a combination of diachronic and synchronic study of regional processes. Both the scope of the book and the historical and geocultural coverage on these topics are unique in the field of Latin American Studies.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding issues of collective identity, otherness, alterity, and the like, Mapping Diversity in Latin America sheds light on histories that have been traditionally overlooked in texts on race in Latin America, such as the rich history of diasporic Asian, Syrian Lebanese, and Jewish communities, and the more recent emergence of Latinx populations in the United States. The book includes a critical examination of fundamental concepts such as mestizaje, mulataje, creolization, negritud, and blanquitud, as well as critical and theoretical approaches to the study of these issues in postcolonial societies.

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