“Latinidad Is Cancelled”

2021/07/01 by Tatiana Flores · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Latin American and Latino Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1525/lavc.2021.3.3.58

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Abstract

Adopting a hemispheric perspective, this essay problematizes the construct of latinidad by foregrounding how it reproduces Black erasure. I argue that “Latin America,” rather than being a geographical designator, is an imagined community that is Eurocentric to the degree that its conceptual boundaries exclude African diaspora spaces. I then turn to understandings of whiteness across borders, contrasting perceptions of racial mixture in the United States and the Hispanophone Americas. Lastly, I examine works by (Afro-)Latinx artists whose nuanced views on race demonstrate the potential of visual representation to provide insight into this complex topic beyond the black-white binary.

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