Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Race and Identity in Hispanic America: The White, the Black, and the Brown

Race and Identity in Hispanic America: The White, the Black, and the Brown

Reid-Merritt, Patricia
Rodriguez, Michael

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesLatino Studies

ISBN10: 1440867844
ISBN13: 9781440867842
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 3 2020
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

This book offers a historical and comparative overview of the evolution of racial classifications in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

The Hispanicization of America is precipitating a paradigm shift in racial thinking in which race is no longer defined by distinct characteristics but rather is becoming synonymous with ethnic/cultural identity.

Traditionally, assimilation has been conceived of as a unidirectional and racialized phenomenon. Newly arrived immigrant groups or longstanding minority/indigenous populations were Americanized in confining their racial and ethnic natures to the private sphere and adopting, in the public sphere, the cultural mores, norms, and values of the dominant cultural/racial group. In contrast, the Hispanicization of America entails the horizontal assimilation of various groups from Spanish-speaking countries throughout the Western Hemisphere and Caribbean into a pan-ethnic, Hispanic/Latino identity that also challenges the privileged position of whiteness as the primary and exclusive referent for American identity.

Instead of focusing on one Hispanic group, ethnic identity, or region, this book chronicles the development of racial identity across the largest Hispanic groups throughout the United States.

Also in

Latino Studies

View All