Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America’s long history of showing how racism can co-exist with racial mixture and conviviality offers useful ammunition for strengthening anti-racist stances. This volume asks whether cultural production has a particular role to play within discourses and practices of anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors analyse music, performance, education, language, film and art in diverse national contexts across the region. The book also places Latin American and Caribbean racial formations within a broader global context and sets out the premise that the region provides valuable opportunities for thinking about anti-racism when recent political events have made ever more fragile the claims that, at least in Europe and the United States, we exist in a ‘post-racial’ world.

Peter Wade is a British anthropologist and a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester who specializes in issues of race and ethnicity in Latin America.

James Scorer is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. He specializes in Latin American urban geographies and space.

Ignacio Aguiló is a Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Manchester.