ABSTRACT
Racialization and Language provides an interesting counterpoint to United States scholarship in raciolinguistics, exploring issues of racism and "race" from a Latin American perspective. This unique outlook offers another lens to better understand how racialization is discursively constructed. Racialization processes and the construction of racial boundaries require semiotic work. Racialization and Language contributes to a long-existing Latin American school of thought tradition that has explored ways of understanding and overcoming racism. Racialization processes operate across time and place in a global capitalist world system that constructs differences in material and symbolic ways that have local and universal features. Anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-patriarchal movements have been challenging the hegemonic structures of oppression at the local and global level for a long time. These movements have resignified differences as social identities that allow oppressed groups to use stigma as a political resource.
