Despite the proliferation of significant scholarship on Latinos/as over the past four decades and the formal establishment of a Latina/o sociology section in the American Sociological Association in 1994, Latino/a sociology has yet to be systematically defined or fully developed. This essay isolates the underlying premises that mark this developing field. Latino/a sociology is grounded in the standpoints of Latinos/as and anchors its analyses in theories of race and racialization. Latino/a sociology also transcends disciplinary boundaries, incorporating developments in intersectionality, critical race theory, and postcolonial theories. Drawing from transnational perspectives—on migration, globalization, and the experiences of borders and borderlands—Latino/a sociology remains attuned to social processes across boundaries and is oriented to social justice and human rights. Here we propose a new paradigm for Latino/a sociology that moves beyond the Black-White binary to build more comprehensive understandings of race and racialization in the twenty-first century.

尽管在过去的四十年中，关于拉丁裔/社会学的大量学术研究激增，并且在1994年美国社会学协会正式成立了拉丁裔/ o社会学部门，但是拉丁裔/社会学尚未得到系统的定义或充分发展。本文将标记此发展领域的潜在前提隔离开来。拉丁裔/一种社会学基于拉丁裔/ as的立场，并将其分析锚定在种族和种族化理论中。拉丁裔/一种社会学也超越学科界限，融合了交叉性，批判种族理论和后殖民理论的发展。从跨国角度出发，例如移民，全球化，以及边境和边疆地区的经验-拉丁美洲/一种社会学仍然与跨境的社会进程保持协调，并以社会正义和人权为导向。在这里，我们为拉丁裔/一种社会学提出了一种新的范式，它超越了黑白二元模型，以建立对二十一世纪种族和种族化的更全面的理解。