Inventing Latinos: A New Story Of American Racism

"Latinos are the second-largest demographic in the United States, but is “Latino” an ethnic identity or a racial one? How can Latino be a race if Latinos themselves can be various races? In her book, Inventing Latinos, UCLA Law professor Laura E. Gómez makes the case that Latinos are both. She does so by examining the ways that American colonialism in Latin America and laws in the United States have led to the racialization of Latinos by denying them “full and equal participation in American life.”"