Regimes of anti-Blackness and Movements against anti-Black Racism in the Caribbean and Latin America

This report, written by sociologist Agustín Laó-Montes, is an invitation to confront a reality that has profoundly marked our societies: anti-Blackness. Through a journey that ranges from the legacies of slavery to current forms of violence and exclusion, the document helps us understand that anti-Blackness is not a problem of the past, nor of a single country, but a global structure that continues to affect the lives of millions of Black people around the world.

With a clear focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and Colombia, it shows how patterns are repeated, such as institutional racism, state violence, denial of rights, and silencing of knowledge. It also highlights something essential: the struggles, resistance, and proposals that Black communities have developed to defend life, dignity, and justice.