Challenging Racism in Revolutionary "Raceless" Cuba (Audio)

Challenging Racism in Revolutionary “Raceless” Cuba (Audio)

In this edition of NACLA Radio, Helen talks with NACLA Report contributor Devyn Spence Benson about her article on racism ...
To Live and Let Live in South Los Angeles

To Live and Let Live in South Los Angeles

“Day to day, we all get along,” says South Los Angeles community leader Arturo Ybarra, unintentionally alluding to Rodney King’s ...
Black Brazilian Women and the Lula Administration

Black Brazilian Women and the Lula Administration

This piece was published in the March/April 2007 issue of the NACLA Report. The social sciences produced by black intellectuals ...
Music and the Formation of Black Identity in Colombia

Music and the Formation of Black Identity in Colombia

During my fieldwork in Colombia, I found that music and dance were important to understanding patterns of racism and racial ...
Incas, Indios, and Indigenism in Peru

Incas, Indios, and Indigenism in Peru

Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo entered office in July 2001 raising ethnic banners to mobilize the masses against the corrupt and ...
Ethnic (In)Visibility in Neoliberal Argentina

Ethnic (In)Visibility in Neoliberal Argentina

During the 1990s, Argentina’s government and national media repeatedly called attention to a wave of migration that was supposedly flooding ...
Race, Class and Color: Behind Brazil's "Racial Democracy

Race, Class and Color: Behind Brazil’s “Racial Democracy

Racism has its origins in the elaboration and expansion of a doctrine that justifies inequality among human beings, not so ...
Blackness with a Cuban Beat

Blackness with a Cuban Beat

Esa música que heredamos hijos y nietos de los africanos, la que mezclamos con la española, con la francesa y ...