ABSTRACT

Conceptualizations of Latinidad range from those emphasizing ethnicity and whiteness to those questioning the category's utility for capturing the diversity of diasporas from dozens of countries. This article approaches Latinidad from relational formations of race framework, revealing the importance of the sociohistorical context in which Latinxs are racialized in relation to one another and other racialized groups. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with artists and activists in Los Angeles and analysis of hip-hop cultural productions, this research finds that Latinxs raised in “minority-majority” neighbourhoods have developed understandings of race and political solidarities that highlight brownness, which is often articulated as part of a “Black and Brown multiracial formation”. Such understandings of race and racialization challenge the dominant black/white racial binary, whitewashed notions of Latinidad, and ethnonationalisms. The counterscripts articulated through cultural production and activist narratives provide grassroots theorizations on race, belonging, and citizenship and shed light on multilevel processes of racialization.

摘要

拉丁语的概念化范围从强调种族和白人的概念到质疑该类别在捕获来自数十个国家的侨民多样性方面的效用的人们。本文从种族框架的关系形式探讨拉丁裔，揭示了拉丁裔被种族化相对于彼此和其他种族化群体的社会历史背景的重要性。基于与洛杉矶艺术家和活动家的民族志田野调查以及对嘻哈文化产物的分析，这项研究发现，在“少数族裔”社区中长大的拉丁人对种族和政治团结的理解已加深，这突出了褐色，通常是“黑色和棕色多种族形态”的一部分。对种族和种族化的这种理解挑战了主要的黑白种族二元，粉饰的拉丁裔观念和民族主义。通过文化生产和激进主义叙事表达出来的手稿提供了关于种族，归属和公民身份的基层理论，并阐明了种族化的多层次过程。