ABSTRACT
The geographical focus placed on Latin America and the Caribbean in this chapter serves three purposes. First, it extends comprehension of whiteness as a global and historic property of social relations into contexts that differ from the American and British ones. Second, it shows the distinctiveness of national and regional ‘racial regimes’. The countries referred to here differ in history and social composition, but the equation of whiteness with power, which is the constant in this sea of variables, speaks with local accents. Third, it enables us to examine the processes used to construct racialised identities and their relationship to bodies.
