Hill, Ruth / Mapping Diversity in Latin America: Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present

Ruth Hill is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding issues of collective identity, otherness, alterity, and the like, Mapping Diversity in Latin America sheds light on histories that have been traditionally overlooked in texts on race in Latin America, such as the rich history of diasporic Asian, Syrian Lebanese, and Jewish communities, and the more recent emergence of Latinx populations in the United States. The book includes a critical examination of fundamental concepts such as mestizaje, mulataje, creolization, negritud, and blanquitud, as well as critical and theoretical approaches to the study of these issues in postcolonial societies.

9780826507242

Vanderbilt University Press

February 2025

Paperback

Hill, Ruth / Mapping Diversity in Latin America: Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present