Reviews: Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies

According to Milian, the construct of "Latinities" pushes beyond the often-politicized and US-bound "latinidades." [...]Latinities opens up the construct of subject formation in relation to blackness, brownness and dark-brownness, as well as intersectional factors associated with Latinidades such as language, ethnicity, class, gender, and race, among others. While cultural production itself has engaged the interstitial relationship between blackness, dark-brownness and brownness, Milian's study views this production from a unique critical lens that forces us to understand racialization and the Global and local South in more sophisticated critical terms with regard to embodiment, resistance, politics, and identities.