“…Second and relatedly, scholarly conversations salient to U.S. Latinxs as uniformly Brown isolates racialization to the United States while failing to underscore its relationship to processes of racialization, racial politics, and colonial logics in Latin America (Banks, 2006; Dzidzienyo & Oboler, 2005; Haney López, 2003; Hernández, 2004, 2016; Hooker, 2014, 2017; Urrieta, 2003; Urrieta & Calderón, 2019). Third, the discursive reference to U.S. Latinxs as monolithically Brown has implications for determining who matters and, reciprocally, who does not matter within social and political discourses of U.S. Latinidad (Afro-Puerto Rican Testimonies, 2010; Jones, 2018; Jorge, 1986/2010; Rivera-Rideau et al, 2016). Political and social inclusivity is often relative to how ideologies of mestizaje, racial democracy, and racial egalitarianism are situated within regional and nation-state–specific racial identity politics (Hooker, 2005a, 2005b, 2014, 2017; Paschel, 2016; Telles & Paschel, 2014).…”