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Latin American Anti-racism in a 'Post-Racial' Age - LAPORA

This is the site of LAPORA, a research project that investigates anti-racist practices and ideologies in Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. You will find here information of our team, research cases, resources and events in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The project contributes to understand the growing interest in addressing problems of racism and racial inequality in the region.

Read more at: Mexico

Mexico

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.

Read more at: Colombia

Colombia

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.

Read more at: Ecuador

Ecuador

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.

Read more at: Brazil

Brazil

In Brazil, racial inequalities coexist with a state system in which black organizations actively participate in proposing multiculturalist public laws and policies.

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University of Cambridge
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