Race, Gender, and Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean: The New Geographies of Multiculturalism, Democracy, and Citizenship

This essay explores the new geographies of multicultural citizenship and democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing how Blacks, women, and Indigenous peoples are challenging old hierarchies of discrimination while creating new forms of civic participation and citizenship.The late anthropologist John Burdick argued that history weighs heavily on the peoples of the Americas, and that for the poorer, the darker, and those considered Indigenous, the historical weight was greater given the history in the region of these marginalized identities.Burdick's analysis was a sharp commentary on the thorny and tangled history of racialization and class and gender inequality across the Americas.The books reviewed in this essay spotlight how the region is being radically transformed by Afro and Indigenous groups: in realms from media, literature, and print images to racialization and anti-racism, gender, and labor.Written and researched from