Abstract
This essay examines the way the French discourse of Latinité serves as an organizing narrative of racial hierarchization in the national/imperial constructs of LAfrique Latine and América Latina. By tracing the permutations and evolutions of Latin identity across these two contexts, I argue, we can appreciate Latinité as a field of what Shu-Mei Shih calls "racial triangulation," in which racial stratifications inhere in response to a panoply of markers both within and beyond national contexts. In this sense Latinité productively alters frameworks for the study of race, nation, and imperialism according to national and linguistic divisions.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 236-244 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Contemporary French and Francophone Studies |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1 2013 |
Keywords
- Algeria
- France
- Latin America
- Latinité
- Race
