Hybrid subjectivities, Latin American mestizaje, and Latino political thought on race

This essay interrogates accounts of race in Latino political thought (and hence claims about how Latinos should approach race in the USA) grounded in a selective borrowing from Latin American philosophical sources on mestizaje. It argues that the uncritical reproduction of certain conceptions of mestizaje in Latino political thought ignores the way in which Latin American ideas about race were developed in direct conversation with US empire and US racial politics, is at odds with contemporary racial politics in the region, and might serve to obscure certain fault lines within Latinidad.