Race and ethnicity: Latino/a immigrants and emerging geographies of race and place in the USA

Over the past 20 years, Latino/a immigration to the USA has transformed how place and race are lived. The scale of the city-region has emerged as key to understanding these changes. Latino/a immigrants challenge the stark black-white binary that has long shaped race relations in the USA. Labor relations, racial stereotyping, and Latino/a alliances with other demographic groups have emerged as provocative themes in the recent scholarship on Latino/a immigration. Because race and place work iteratively to shape one another, geographic thought on place may be used to sophisticate our conceptual understanding of race. In particular, the fluidity of race is challenged through its close relationship with place.