After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 19

Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.

In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the prese

In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked