Latin American racism operates without explicit racial categories and proliferates shifting racial vocabulary.

Evidence

There is a series of generalizations to be drawn from the notion of racial latinamericanization I have been elaborating here. First, I have been emphasizing throughout that latinamericanization exemplifies most clearly the conceptual and material conditions and implications, effects and challenges of raceless racisms, of racist informalisms and individualization, of mannered racisms and racial avoidance. In short, of neoliberalizing racisms. Second, the expansive, almost horizon-less proliferation of racially significant, inflected, or suggestive terms throughout Latin America, many with shifting meanings not only across space and time but also from one user or user-group to another, speaks to the complexity of racial arrangements. Yet it refers also to the varieties and range of racial investment throughout the region. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1230

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Goldberg’s broader argument about racial neoliberalism and to the Racial Privacy Act discussion referenced in the next paragraph.
• DEFINE: Defines ‘racial latinamericanization’ as the model of raceless, informalized, neoliberal racisms.