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Reconstructing Race: Racism, Culture and Mestizaje in Latin America
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EthnicityCritical Race TheoryLatin American StudyEducationEthnic Group RelationLatin AmericaRacial StudyRaceLatin American DiasporaAfrican American StudiesCultural DiversityLatin American HistoryRacial GroupEthnic StudiesLatin American CultureRacialization StudiesLatin American StudiesCulturalist DefinitionsEthnic IdentityRacial Mixture-mestizaje—Anti-racismCultureLatin American NationsHumanitiesAnthropologyRace Relation
Culturalist definitions of race have been central to the invention of Latin American nations. Key to those definitions has been the concept of racial mixture-mestizaje— which remains a highly contested concept.