About us
The project contributes to understand the growing interest in addressing problems of racism and racial inequality in the region.
Against Racism: Organizing for Social Change in Latin Americ
Read the books, chapters, articles and special issues that have derived from research on the LAPORA project.
Meet the team
LAPORA brings together an international team of researchers and advisers working across countries, disciplines and areas of expertise.
Practices of racism in Mexico cannot be understood without taking into account the colonial past, or the ideology of the mestizaje that emerged in the post-revolutionary period to generate a whiter nation.
A powerful trope in images of the Colombian nation is the idea of internal difference, with the country often being talked of as a “country of regions”, each with a supposedly particular often racialised identity.
In Ecuador, the concept of ethnicity and later that of race were incorporated as part of the multicultural movement inaugurated in the country since the indigenous uprising of 1990 and the Constitutions of 1998 and 2008.
In Brazil, racial inequalities coexist with a state system in which black organizations actively participate in proposing multiculturalist public laws and policies.