Race and Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Crossview from Brazil discusses the
racial issue in Latin America by inserting Brazil's perspective within the regional debate at
once contrasting with more common nationally-focused perspectives and highlighting the exchange
between the luso and hispano worlds. Through this dialogical scheme the volume aims to offer a
panorama of the historical and contemporary debates on the racial issue across the region. It
emphasizes in particular slavery's inheritance the persistent subordination of the black
population along with its mobilization and exchanges the centrality of the anti-racist
struggle and its main actors and intellectuals the impact of multicultural and racial equality
policies and the development of categorizations. Race and Racism in Latin America and the
Caribbean: A Crossview from Brazil brings about the need to enlarge knowledge on the black
population in the region identifying national particularities distinct historical contexts
and forms of categorization and relations with other ethnic groups The volume also illustrates
a current state of affairs underscoring new debates and challenges which arise in a context of
sanitary crisis and black genocide.
