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Ethnicity, Class, and Race in the United States

Prospects for African-American/Latino Alliances

Queens College, City University of New York

The United States is still organized in terms of a hierarchy of race, gender, and class. In the context of challenges to U.S. hegemony and loss of legitimacy at home, a new hegemonic discourse seeks to replace the racial/class hierarchy with a "color-blind" society made up of a plurality of ethnic groups. Interclass racial alliances have long been engineered by the state to prevent the formation of effective interracial class alliances, and therefore as the "color-blind" society is celebrated the significance of race is reasserting itself nationally and globally. To construct an African-American/Latino class alliance that can strengthen the social justice movement on the way to transforming capitalist racial and gender relations, it will be necessary to unveil and resist this discourse and examine the gendered and racialized spaces that affect Latinos and African-Americans alike.

Key Words: Black • African-American • Latino • Afro-Latino • coalitions • alliances

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