{"id":61183,"date":"2021-08-10T02:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T02:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61183"},"modified":"2022-05-16T18:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T18:57:32","slug":"latinidad-is-cancelled-confronting-an-anti-black-construct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61183","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLatinidad Is Cancelled\u201d: Confronting an Anti-Black Construct"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLatinidad Is Cancelled\u201d: Confronting an Anti-Black Construct<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture<\/a>
\nVolume 3, Issue 3 (July 2021)<\/a>
\npages 58-79
\nDOI: 10.1525\/lavc.2021.3.3.58<\/a><\/p>\n

Tatiana Flores<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Latino & Caribbean Studies and Art History
\nRutgers, The State University of New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n

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Adopting a hemispheric<\/a> perspective, this essay problematizes the construct of latinidad<\/em><\/a> by foregrounding how it reproduces Black erasure. I argue that \u201cLatin America<\/a>,\u201d rather than being a geographical designator, is an imagined community that is Eurocentric<\/a> to the degree that its conceptual boundaries exclude African diaspora<\/a> spaces. I then turn to understandings of whiteness across borders, contrasting perceptions of racial mixture in the United States<\/a> and the Hispanophone<\/a> Americas. Lastly, I examine works by (Afro-)Latinx<\/a> artists whose nuanced views on race demonstrate the potential of visual representation to provide insight into this complex topic beyond the black-white binary.<\/p>\n

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