  The reflections on race/ethnicity of Latin American feminist methodology are diverse, demonstrating the racial heterogeneity generated by the colonial condition. Colonialism not only initiated contemporary understandings of race/ethnicity but generated conditions of racial formation under systems of exploitation and subordination. Specifically, the colonial history of Latin America entailed the subordination of Indigenous and Afro-descended peoples (Schutte &amp; Femenías 2010: 407). Economically, colonialism entailed the enslavement and exploitation of these populations. Culturally, colonialism ensured the imposition of a socio-symbolic order that entrenched whiteness as a norm and cultural authority (Schutte &amp; Femenías 2010: 407). Concurrently, norms of gender and class emerge through the production of race, whose economic impact is reflected through the link between whiteness and class ascension. Subsequently, nation-building projects in Latin America and the Caribbean were forged by political elites with patriarchal ideologies mired in racism and classism. The impact of these ideologies has entailed a racialized social stratification that reflects the privilege of whiteness and leaves women disproportionally affected (Curiel 2007: 98).