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About CORALA<\/h1>\n

This AHRC-funded research project<\/a>, which ran between 2021 and 2024, explored the relationship between race, particularly blackness and indigeneity, and comics production in Latin America. Ever since early depictions of race in caricatures dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the region\u2019s comics have been marked by varied representations of race and discourses that speak to a long history of identities and social relations shaped in and through racial mixture.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, these comics are simplistic, stereotypical and display racist representations of cultural difference. Sometimes they are more considered, exploring the complexities of race in ways that deploy the comic form as a way of constructing anti-racist visual discourses.<\/p>\n

Despite legislative advances addressing structural inequalities and growing awareness that racism is a widespread social problem, Latin America is still shaped by long-standing racial hierarchies, often obscured by celebrations of the region’s mestizaje (race mixture).<\/p>\n

The relationship between comics and race demands attention both because of those racial tensions and also because, since the early 2000s, Latin America is currently undergoing a comics renaissance, facilitated by growing recognition and engagement with comics. Though there is still no comics industry as such, there are a significant number of independent publishing houses dedicated to comics and a vast digital landscape of social media pages that pay testament to a hugely diverse field of production.<\/p>\n

For that reason, now continues to be the perfect moment to unpack how comics in the region have treated issues of racial difference in all its diverse manifestations, and how the comics world, which remains predominantly white, might seek out ways to be less inscribed by racial inequalities.<\/p>\n

The project undertook two main tasks:<\/p>\n