Comparative racialization: Culture and national origin in the latina/o communities

Denver University Law Review

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 633-655

  Johnson, Kevin R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (3)

1. See generally MICHAEL OMI & HOWARD WINANT, RACIAL FORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES FROM THE 1960's TO THE 1990's (2d ed. 1994) (analyzing racial formation in United States). In this essay, I use "racialization" in the context of "comparative racialization" broadly to refer to the different social constructions as "others" of persons of Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican ancestry; such differentiation may be based on perceived class and cultural, as well as phenotypical (physical appearance), differences.
2. See Kevin R. Johnson & George A. Martínez, Crossover Dreams: The Roots of LatCrit Theory in Chicana/o Studies Activism and Scholarship, 53 U. MIAMI L. REV. 1143, 1155-57 (1999) (advocating scholarship analyzing the distinctive racialization of Chicano/as in the United States);
3. Kevin R. Johnson, Celebrating LatCrit Theory: What Do We Do When the Music Stops?, 33 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 753, 764 (2000) ("[T]he process of racialization is complex, affecting different groups in different ways. Latina/os comprise a truly complex racial mixture of peoples...") (footnote omitted).