"The great virtue of this book is its bringing together of the debates on black and Latino identity and its challenge to the terms in which they have been traditionally conceived. Race or Ethnicity? explores the complexities of the adjudication of identities, provides histories of ethnicized blackness and racialized Latinity that will come as a revelation to many readers, and shows how discussions of ethno-racial justice need to be sensitized to the divergence of experience of different groups represented as oppressed."

- Charles W. Mills, University of Illinois, Chicago, author of <I>The Racial Contract</I> and <I>Blackness Visible</I>,

"This book is interesting, timely, and worthwhile because it addresses contemporary issues regarding highly contestable concepts that are usually taken for granted in ordinary as well as in professional conversations about race and ethnicity."

- Vicente Medina, Seton Hall University, author of <I>Social Contract Theories</I>,

"This is a terrific volume packed with top-flight contributors. It pulls off the difficult feat of advancing our understanding of a set of long overdue topics (race and identity in both Black and Latino contexts) while also providing a snapshot of cutting-edge work on race and identity more generally. This book is a must-read for students and scholars interested in race, identity, and U.S. politics."

- Manuel Vargas, University of San Francisco,