"Race" to the Future: Racial Politics in Latin America 2015

In: Perspectives on politics, Volume 3, Issue 3, p. 561-564

Abstract

The year is 2015, and across Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean
there are social movements demanding racial justice as political parties
jockey to incorporate candidates of African and indigenous descent.
Textbooks are being rewritten to highlight the contributions and unique
experiences of indigenous and black Latin Americans and affirmative action
programs are being debated and implemented. W. E. B. DuBois's famous
line, "The problem of the twentieth century will be the problem of
the color line," applies to Latin America in the twenty-first
century. What led us to this moment? And what tools does political science
have to explain it?