Latin American racial exceptionalism unites figures from Bolivar to Freyre across two centuries

Evidence

Racial americanization projects itself as the model, the one to be emulated, the failure of which bears more significant costs than in each of the other, if related, instances. At the same time, particular countries have taken on elements of such racial modalities developed and finessed elsewhere, out of related histories of racial articulation not quite their own, as will become evident in the elaboration that follows. But though it insists on its exceptionalism, the globally interacting historical analytic on which I insist urges the interactive relation, and therefore influence, of other historically resonant modalities likewise on americanization, thus indicating an exceptionalism disturbingly not too exceptional. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 356 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Latin American neo-racism pioneered shifting race from biology to culture; American racial exceptionalism is actually interdependent with other regimes — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 356

Broader Connections

• American racial exceptionalism is actually interdependent with other regimes #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 356