Pt. 1. Hispanic/Latino identity, ethnicity, and race. Is Latina/o identity a racial identity? / Linda Martin Alcoff ; The making of new peoples: Hispanizing race / Eduardo Mendieta ; Negotiating Latina identities / Ofelia Schutte ; Cultural particularity versus universal humanity: the value of being asimilao / Paula M.L. Moya ; The larger picture: Hispanics/Latinos (and Latino studies) in the colonial horizon of modernity / Walter D. Mignolo ; "It must be a fake!": racial ideologies, identities, and the question of rights / Suzanne Oboler -- Pt. 2. Hispanic/Latino identity, politics, and rights. Structure, difference, and Hispanic/Latino claims of justice / Iris Marion Young ; Universalism, particularism, and group rights: the case of Hispanics / Leonardo Zaibert and Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert ; Accommodation rights for Hispanics in the United States / Thomas W. Pogge ; Affirmative action for Hispanics? yes and no / Jorge J.E. Garcia ; Latino identity and affirmative action / J. Angelo Corlett ; Deliberation and Hispanic representation / Pablo De Greiff