Critical race scholarship has largely ignored the indigenous antiracist vanguard in Latin America

Evidence

Unfortunately this groundswell of antiracism has been taking place under the noses of most scholars of race who have, as outlined above, been virtually silent on this matter. And only very recently, and usually extremely tentatively, are Indian scholars beginning to conceptualize Indian communities, movements, and cultural practices in terms of racism and antiracism (see Gould, 1998; Harvey, 1998; K. Warren, 1998; Warren, in press). Thus much more cross-fertilization of critical race studies and Indian studies is in order. Just as black subjectivities and communities have been the principal catalyst for antiracist activism in the United States, Indians may prove to be the community where the greatest chance exists for upsetting white supremacy in Latin America. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3667

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels to the critique that academic race theory is US-centric, echoing debates about which subject positions anchor antiracist theory.