Readings on Race and Anti-Racism

This reading list, prepared by Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez, is a general entry point to some key texts on race and antiracism, with a focus on visual culture from intersectional social justice perspectives.

Adamovsky, Ezequiel. 2016. A Strange Emblem for a (Not So) White Nation: ‘La Morocha Argentina’ in the Latin American Racial Context, c. 1900-2015. Journal of Social History 50(2): 386-410

Aguiló, Ignacio. 2018. The darkening nation: race, neoliberalism, and crisis in Argentina. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Alberto, Paulina, and Eduardo Elena. 2016. Rethinking race in modern Argentina: the shades of the nation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Alcoff, Linda. 1992. “The Problem of Speaking for Others”. Cultural Critique 20: 5–32.

Aulestia, Ana. 2019. “Daniela Ortiz: arte, migración y racismo.” Índex, revista de arte contemporáneo 8: 160-166.

Bradley, Rizvana, and Ferreira da Silva, Denise. 2021. “Four Theses on Aesthetics”. e-flux Journal. 120:3

Bradley, Rizvana. 2021. “Picturing Catastrophe: The visual politics of racial reckoning”. The Yale Review 109(2), 158-177.

Campt, Tina. 2018. Refusal. Available at: https://www.fotomuseum.ch/en/2018/07/24/refusal/.

Campt, Tina M. 2019. The visual frequency of black life: “Love, labor, and the practice of refusal”. Social Text 37.3: 25-46.

CARLA. 2024. CARLA Cultures of Anti-racism in Latin America. Peter Wade (PI). Virtual Visual Art Exhibition. University of Manchester. https://www.digitalexhibitions.manchester.ac.uk/s/carla-en/page/home

Ceron-Anaya, Hugo, Patricia de Santana Pinho, and Ana Ramos-Zayas. 2023. “A conceptual roadmap for the study of whiteness in Latin America.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 18, no. 2: 177-199.

Chin, Matthew. 2024. Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica. Duke University Press.

Cohen, Jim, and Jade Lindgaard. 2016. “Entrevista a Paul Gilroy: Del atlántico negro a la melancolía postcolonial”. Revista Iberoamericana 255-2: 301-312.

Crenshaw, Kimberle. 1989. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” University of Chicago Legal Forum, Vol. 1989, Article 8.

Curiel, Ochy. 2002. “Identidades esencialistas o construcción de identidades políticas: El dilema de las feministas negras”. Otras miradas 2.2: 96-113.

Da Costa, Alexandre. 2014. “Post-racial Ideology, Emergent Multiculturalisms, and the Contemporary Conjuncture of Racial Politics in Brazil”. In: Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil. Palgrave Macmillan, New York

Dalton, David. 2018. Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Gainsville: University of Florida Press.

Dawson, Alexander S. 2004. Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

De la Cadena, Marisol. 2000. Indigenous mestizos: the politics of race and culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991. Durham: Duke University Press.

De la Peña, Guillermo. 2005. “Social and Cultural Policies Toward Indigenous Peoples: Perspectives from Latin America”, Annual Review of Anthropology, 34, 717 – 739.

Delgado, R. & Stefancic, J. 2001. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. New York: New York University Press.

Du Bois, William and Edward Burghardt. 2020. Las Almas de la Gente Negra. Zeuk Media.

Fanon, Frantz. 2009. Piel negra, máscaras blancas. Ediciones Akal.

Ferreira Da Silva, Denise. 2016. “Blacklight”. In: Otobong Nkanga, Luster and Lucre, eds. Clare Molloy, Philippe Pirotte, and Fabian Schöneich. Berlin: Sternberg Press.

Gilroy, Paul. 2014. Atlántico negro. Modernidad y doble conciencia. Akal editores.

Giunta, Andrea. 2023. The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America. Univ of California Press.

Gonzalez, Lélia. 2021. “La categoría político-cultural de amefricanidad” (trad. Gonzalez, L., Cabanzo Chaparro, M. P., & Daniel, C.) Conexión, (15), 133-144. Recuperado a partir de https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/conexion/article/view/24056 . (Del original: Gonzalez, L. (1988). “A categoria político-cultural de amefricanidade”. Tempo Brasileiro, (92/93), 69-82).

Hartman, Saidiya. 2019. Wayward lives, beautiful experiments: Intimate histories of riotous Black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals. WW Norton & Company.

Hunfeld, Katharina. 2022. “The coloniality of time in the global justice debate: de-centring Western linear temporality”, Journal of Global Ethics, 18:1, 100-117.

Kilomba, Grada. 2020. Memórias da plantação: episódios de racismo cotidiano. Editora Cobogó.

Klor de Alva, Jorge. 1995. ‘The Postcolonization of the (Latin) American Experience: A Reconsideration of “Colonialism,” “Postcolonialism” and “Mestizajes”,’ in Gyan Prakash (ed.), After Colonialism, Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements. Princeton.

Krenak, Ailton. 2023. Ideas para postergar el fin del mundo. Prometeo Libros, 2021. [“Ideas to Postpone the End of the World.” Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 55, no. 1: 274-282]

Lehmann, David. 2021. After the decolonial: Ethnicity, gender and social justice in Latin America. John Wiley & Sons.

Martínez Novo, Carmen. 2018. “Ventriloquism, racism and the politics of decoloniality in Ecuador.” Cultural Studies 32, no. 3: 389-413.

Mbembe, Achille. 2003. “Necropolitics.” Public Culture 15(1): 11-40.

McIntosh, Peggy. 2013. “White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack”. In S. R. Rothenberg (ed.), Race, class, and gender in the United States: An integrated study (pp. 165-169). New York, NY: Worth.

Million, Dian. 2009. “Felt Theory: An Indigenous Feminist Approach to Affect and History.” Wicazo Sa Review 24, no. 2: 53–76.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. 2023. White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness. MIT Press.

Moreno Figueroa, Mónica. 2010. “Distributed intensities: Whiteness, mestizaje and the logics of Mexican racism”. Ethnicities 10: 387-401.

Moreno Figueroa, Mónica. 2011. “Naming ourselves: Recognising racism and mestizaje in Mexico”. In: McLaughlin, J, Phillimore, P, Richardson, D (eds) Contesting Recognition: Culture, Identity and Citizenship. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 122–143.

Moreno Figueroa, Mónica G., and Peter Wade. 2024. “Introduction: the turn to racism and anti-racism in Latin America.” Ethnic and Racial Studies: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2329335

Moreno Figueroa, Mónica, and Peter Wade, eds. 2022. Against Racism: Organizing for Social Change in Latin America. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Moreno Figueroa, Mónica. 2020. “¿De qué sirve el asco?: Racismo antinegro en México.” Revista de la Universidad de México 8: 63-68.

Muñoz, José Esteban, Tavia Amolo Ochieng’ Nyongó and Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson. 2020. The sense of brown. Durham: Duke University Press.

Ortega Domínguez, Abeyamí and Abel, Sarah. 2023. “Public Art and the Grammars of Antiracism”. The New Public Art: Collectivity and Activism in Mexico since the 1980s. In Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra (ed), University of Texas Press, pp. 165-186.

Ortega Domínguez, Abeyamí. 2022. “The Mestizo Gaze: Visualizing Racism, Citizenship, and Rights in Neoliberal Mexico.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 45, no. 14: 2609–30.

Ortega, Gabriela Alejandra y Condori Mamani, Sandra (Chana). 2022. “Feminismo antirracista: ¿Podemos hablar nosotras de nosotras mismas?” Debate: Feminismos y Antirracismos. Tensiones, desafíos y potencias de un activismo posible. Mora 28, Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género, Universidad de Buenos Aires: 321-330

Ribeiro, Djamila. 2018. “Breves reflexiones sobre Lugar de Enunciación.” Relaciones Internacionales (39): 13–18.

Saldívar, Emiko. 2018. Uses and abuses of culture: mestizaje in the era of multiculturalism. Cultural Studies 32(3): 438-459.

Saldaña-Portillo, Maria Josefina. 2016. Indian given: Racial geographies across Mexico and the United States. Duke University Press.

Viveros Vigoya, Mara. 2020. “Los colores del antirracismo (en Améfrica Ladina).” Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad-Revista Latinoamericana 36: 19-34.

Wade, Peter. 2010. Race and ethnicity in Latin America. 2nd edition. London: Pluto Press.

Wade, Peter. 2001. “Racial Identity and Nationalism: A Theoretical View from Latin America,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 24:5, 845-865.

Wade, Peter. 2017. Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom: Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press.

Wade, Peter, and Mónica Moreno-Figueroa. 2021. “Alternative grammars of anti-racism in Latin America.” Interface: a journal for and about social movements 13, no. 2: 20-50.

Wade, Peter, James Scorer, and Ignacio Aguiló (eds). 2019. Cultures of anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. London: University of London Press.

Wade, Peter. 2023. “Art and Anti-Racism in Latin American Racial Formations”. Lansdowne Lecture Series. University of Victoria. Online lecture. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/14965.

Wade, Peter. 2024. “Working against racism: lessons from Latin America? Ethnic and Racial Studies 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2329339

Wade, Peter. 2024. Temporalities, anachronism and politics in stories of the Conquest of the Americas. History and Anthropology, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2361632