Turn to Racism and Anti-racism in Latin America

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.

• Introduction: The turn to racism and anti-racism in Latin America 1. Images as traps: asserting blackness, challenging racism 2. Calling racism by its name: direct violence and the explicit recognition of racism among Indigenous peoples 3. Unpacking the “fluidity” of Mestizaje: How anti-indigenous and anti-black racism determine social relations and economic destinations of Mestizos 4. Ethnic and racial violence and violations: A study of Black and Quilombola populations 5. Anti-racism, aesthetic empowerment and micro-enterprises: Black women’s subversive entrepreneurship 6. Anti-racist Alliances and Solidarities: Typologies, cases and experiences 7. Struggles against racism: Lessons from Latin America