Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays: Studies in Political Economy

In Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays, Mario Barrera puts forth his seminal theory of racial inequality based on a synthesis of class and colonial analysis together with several essays and selections from Barrera’s memoir that show how his thinking developed throughout his work.

Mario Barrera was professor emeritus of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the author of Beyond Aztlan: Ethnic Autonomy in Comparative Perspective (1990) and the first edition of Race and Class in the Southwest (1989), as well as co-producer of the documentary film Chicano Park.

Rodolfo D. Torres is professor emeritus of urban planning at the University of California at Irvine. He is author and co-author of ten books, most notably the American Political Science Association award-winning Latino best book of the year, The Latino Question: Politics, Laboring Classes and the Next Left (2018), co-authored with Armando Ibarra and Alfredo Carlos, and Latino Metropolis with Victor Valle (2000). Torres is also co-author with Edward Martin of Capitalism and Critique (2019). Torres assisted Professor Barrera in the final stages of Race and Class in the Southwest with his analysis of labor market segmentation theory and Marxist theories of the state.

William I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Global and International Studies, and Latin American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of many award-winning books, among them, The Global Police State (2020), and Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism (2025).