Latin American nations show deep racial disparities on nearly every social index

Evidence

Racial alterity has, in general, not produced hidden transcripts or critical consciousness vis-a-vis race and racism. Separate subcultures, cultural frames of reference, or ethnicities have not tended to form around racial categories in Latin America (Alarcon, 1994:310; Safa, 1998:5; Warren, 1997:109). As a result, whites and people of color often share a similar set of white supremacist aesthetics, prejudices, expectations, and memories, as well as the same limited understandings of racism. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3607 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The fluidity and motility around racial matters across Latin America thus come with the weight of significant historical and cultural baggage. These historical weights of race are always a drag on possibility and psychology. They are stress-producing and diminish life’s prospects by comparison with those not so (directly) weighed down by the burdens of race. … And the burdens may be greater in some cases for women stigmatized by sexualizing innuendo, and at other times for men, dismissed as social wannabees. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1207 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial fluidity in Latin America carries psychological stress and diminished prospects — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1207; Latin American nation-building assimilated diversity into a white-dominant body — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1143; Racial hierarchy in Latin America produced no separate subaltern cultures or critical consciousness — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3607 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Brazil’s nominal racial democracy masks stark black-white structural disparities #exemplifies (0.92)
• Racial hierarchy in Latin America produced no separate subaltern cultures or critical consciousness #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3607
• Racial fluidity in Latin America carries psychological stress and diminished prospects #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1207