Latin American race scholars have repeatedly over-predicted imminent antiracist uprisings

Evidence

Another way in which nonwhite resistance has been overstated within critical race studies is the emphasis placed on the future - on an emerging antiracist movement. Such a belief has been predominant in race studies in Latin America for several decades. For example, the UNESCO researchers of the 1950s predicted an upsurge in subaltern contestation. Hutchinson wrote that “in the town [Vila Reconcavo] and among the mill workers, ‘people of colour’ are beginning to show independence, and unwillingness always to occupy a subservient and lowly position” (1952:45). And Marvin Harris advised, “Serious attention should be devoted to the possibility that the future may bring more militant and widespread racial tension to Minas Velhas” (1952:80). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3641 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Latin American race scholars have repeatedly predicted imminent black uprisings that never materialized. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3641; Scholarship overstates the size of antiracist movements in Brazil. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3639; The instability of racial categories undermines organizing around race in Latin America — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1200 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Latin American race scholars have repeatedly predicted imminent black uprisings that never materialized. #expands (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3641