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  1. Jul 31, 2017 · A frame of Critical Latinx Indigeneities allows us to forge a hemispheric analysis capable of examining more than one racial structure and the multiple colonial forces (re)shaping indigeneity (Castellanos et al. 2012).

  2. Oct 6, 2023 · In Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective, ethnic studies scholar Lorgia García Peña offers an innovative way of thinking about Latinidad and Blackness within the fields of Latina/o studies and Black studies.

  3. Feb 16, 2022 · Lamas goes to great lengths to recognize the blind spots that Latinx studies have had around indigeneity and blackness, but the book relies on a more-or-less conventional conception of Latin America that decolonial theorists have critiqued for reproducing indigenous erasure and anti-blackness.

    • John Alba Cutler
    • jalbacutler@berkeley.edu
  4. Jul 1, 2021 · Studies have shown that Latinxs “demonstrat[e] a strong preference for Whiteness and an aversion towards a Black identity.” 133 Indeed, even though mestizaje is so integral to the construction of latinidad as broadly understood, another Pew Research Center study revealed that only one-third of Latinxs identified as mixed race; most ...

    • Tatiana Flores
    • 2021
  5. Nov 9, 2021 · The second annual forum on Critical Latinx Indigeneities features scholars whose research on Indigenous Latinx cultural politics pushes the boundaries of Latinx, Latin American, Indigenous, and Black studies to provide innovative analyses of race, gender, capital, and power in the contemporary

  6. Black and Latinx, in the collective imaginary, do not coexist. In this essay, I show how this two-pronged problematic of Latinidad —in which it both excludes Blackness and is constructed as proximate to whiteness—produces two fundamental problems.

  7. Translating Blackness is a welcomed intervention in the fields of Latino and Black studies. Using Black Latinidad as her conceptual lens, Peña interrogates how the historical nexus of race, colonialism, and immigration has shaped and continues to shape the ethnic, racial, and civic exclusion of Black lives in the Dominican Republic and the ...