The Paradoxes Of Racial Politics: The Politics of Race and Globalization, Part II

The first installment of this three-part series, “The Politics of Race and Globalization,” focused on racial and ethnic identities in the Americas. This second installment dovetails nicely with the first by investigating ways in which these identities are used politically-negatively and positively—both by the state and by communities seeking social change. The political application of these identities has become increasingly useful in recent decades as more communities throughout the Americas face new forms of exclusion and marginality in the context of neoliberal structural adjustment.