race

How to Talk About White, Whiteness and Whitening in Latin America?

Aidaluz Sánchez, Universidad de Guadalajara

Body and Territory: Conversations Based on Canarian Decolonial Feminism

Larisa Pérez Flórez, Paula Fernández Hernández de La Laguna, España
Carmen G. Hernández Ojeda Universidad de Granada, España
Xiomara Núñez Rodríguez Tecnológico de Monterrey, México

Intersectionalities of masculinity, race and class: Notes for a notion of neocolonial masculinities

Mauricio Menjívar, Universidad de Costa Rica

‘Dancing like a Black Man’. Rythm, Race, and Nation in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Emily Wamsley, Universidad de Manchester

Colonial Painting and the Education of the gaze. Conformation of identities and otherness

Vivian Marcela Carrión Barrero viviancarrionbarrero@yahoo.es Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Abstract: This writing tries to analyze one of the ways a policy of “otherness” was constructed and produced in the context of the 17th century, during the Colony. Showing the way how a discourse was elaborated and appropriated through images, in which a policy of segregation was […]

Stuart Hall on Race and Racism: Cultural Studies and the Practice of Contextualism

Lawrence Grossberg dockrock@email.unc.edu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) Abstract: Stuart Hall’s work on race cannot be separated from his work in cultural studies, and in particular, from his commitment to a radical contextualism. In this article, I argue that Stuart Hall’s work on race and racism in the context of his own long-standing […]

Human nature and race

Peter Wade peter.wade@manchester.ac.uk The University of Manchester Abstract: Most scholars argue that “race” has no relation to human nature. A minority contend that it does. I argue that “race” is a cultural category which can become an embodied part of the human experience. This embodiment helps account for the power of the idea of race. […]

Analysing power: Foucault and the decolonial theory

Montserrat Galceran Huguet galceran@filos.ucm.es Universidad Complutense de Madrid Abstract: This work intends to relate several aspects of decolonial theory brought forward by Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano, and the theses on the workings of power in contemporary societies, which were advanced by Michel Foucault. Specifically, the issue of hierarchy and heterarchy of power relations and the […]

“Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto”: Physiognomy and the constrution of difference in colonial Bogotá

Joanne Rappaport rappapoj@georgetown.edu Georgetown University, USA Abstract: This article examines what early modern bureaucrats thought people of different calidades–indio, mestizo, negro, mulato, espanol–looked like, inquiring into narrative portraits drawn in a variety of legal circumstances. Colonial administrators were not so much concerned with the characteristics of broad social categories but with the appearance of individuals, […]

Racism, racial democracy, mestizaje and sex/gender relations

Peter Wade peter.wade@manchester.ac.uk University of Manchester, UK Abstract: Latin American ideologies and practices of mestizaje contain within them dynamics of equality and difference and of racial democracy and racism at the same time. I explore how this simultaneous co-existence operates in large part through complex entanglements of sexuality, gender and race/ethnicity, which take place at […]