Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas
From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash
Abstract
Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas is an essential roadmap to understanding contemporary racial politics across the Americas, where openly white supremacist politics are on the rise. It is the product of a multiyear, transnational research project by the Anti-racist Research and Action Network of the Americas in collaboration with resistance movements confronting racial retrenchment in Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. How did we get here? And what anti-racist strategies are equal to the dire task of confronting resurgent racism? This volume provides powerful answers to these pressing questions. 1) It traces the making and contestation of state-led racial projects in response to black and indigenous mobilization during an era of expansion of multicultural rights in the context of neoliberal capitalism. 2) It identifies the origins and manifestations of the backlash against hard-fought (but hardly far-reaching) gains by marginalized peoples, showing that (contrary to critiques of “identity politics”) the losses and anxieties produced by the failures of neoliberalism have been understood in racial terms. 3) It distills a path forward for progressive anti-racist activism in the Americas that looks beyond state-centered, rights-seeking strategies and instead situates a critique of racial capitalism as central to the contestation of white supremacy.
Schlagworte
Race Theory Social Movements Ethnic Studies Latin American Politics Latin American Studies African American Studies American Studies Neoliberalism Indigenous Politics Indigenous Studies Black Lives Matter Black Politics White supremacy- i–x Preface i–x
- 1–20 Introduction 1–20
- 159–188 5 Estamos Em Marcha! 159–188
- 295–308 Afterword 295–308
- 309–324 Index 309–324
- 325–330 About the Contributors 325–330