Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2022
The striking racial heterogeneity of contemporary latin america has obviously evolved in the course of a historical process that started in 1492. There would perhaps be a temptation to interpret the whole of Latin American history in terms of race relations. Though we believe that such an approach would be absurd, race relations have admittedly colored many aspects of Latin American history. Their role is by no means easily defined.
A former director of the Institute of Ibero-American Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, the author was a visiting professor of Latin American history at Columbia University when the paper was written. In the fall of 1966, he will assume a position as professor of Latin American history at Queens College of the City University of New York.