Gender studies

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Construct (python library)

Politics

Gene

Literature

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Latin Americans

Chemistry

Programming language

Representation (politics)

Diaspora

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Computer science

Racialization

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Race (biology)

Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture

Adopting a hemispheric perspective, this essay problematizes the construct of latinidad by foregrounding how it reproduces Black erasure. I argue that “Latin America,” rather than being a geographical designator, is an imagined community that is Eurocentric to the degree that its conceptual boundaries exclude African diaspora spaces. I then turn to understandings of whiteness across borders, contrasting perceptions of racial mixture in the United States and the Hispanophone Americas. Lastly, I examine works by (Afro-)Latinx artists whose nuanced views on race demonstrate the potential of visual representation to provide insight into this complex topic beyond the black-white binary.

“Latinidad Is Cancelled”