Racism and recognition. Racial discrimination from a Latin American perspective

Abstract

This issue of Cuadernos de Teoría Social is devoted to the theoretical-empirical debate on racial discrimination and recognition from the perspective of current Latin American thought.
from the perspective of current Latin American thought. This reflection could not be more pertinent in the (post)pandemic context, a scenario that (re)opened the possibility to question "the naturalization of the necropolitics acting in societies, and in particular the Afro peoples as disposable sectors" (Nazareno, 2020, p. 32). Replace by: For reflection from the social sciences, one of the most significant legacies of the COVID19 pandemic was the visibilization and mimicry of structural and historical barriers associated with inequality and racism, as well as their impacts on the interrelation between access to rights and quality of life for historically excluded populations. Thus, among the most notable consequences of the health crisis was the visibilization of local racism in the countries of the region and, in particular, migratory flows as an area of dispute in racialized debates at the national level.