The revolutions in Latin America have been the subject of great hopes and high expectations for social justice and equality. In recent years, however, we have witnessed a proliferation of new activist calls for stronger anti-racist politics and policies. Using ethnographic methods and in close collaboration with antiracist activists, this research project investigates how racialized citizens encounter, maneuver, and tackle everyday prejudices and institutional racism in societies with a strong collective ethos of class-based equality. This project produces detailed ethnographic accounts of new and emerging activism in today's Latin America. It creates new knowledge and conceptualizations at the intersections of political economy and postcolonial thinking.

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2026