Only five Latin American states census by African-descended self-classification

Evidence

These two considerations – the historical seepage across the region of raceless racisms and conceptual proliferation – together challenge the possibilities of counting by race. Throughout Latin America just five state censuses, for instance, have enabled African-descended self-classification: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. Others, such as the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, or Venezuela, all with at least recognizable African historical presence, do not count in racial terms at all. The case of the Racial Privacy Act in parts of the US, I argued earlier, reveals the debilitating implications of refusing to count by race in the face of extended structural restrictions imposed through race. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1231 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial census undercounts in Latin America lead to denied state resources and legal standing; Only five Latin American censuses allow African-descended self-classification. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1231; Racial classification criteria vary wildly by culture and era — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1564

Broader Connections

• Only five Latin American censuses allow African-descended self-classification. #corroborates (0.98) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1231