"Tú, como eres negra, harás de lobo". El debate pendiente sobre la cuestión de la raza en España

In this article we argue that the idea of 'race' constitutes a fundamental factor for the attribution of membership and differential social treatment in Spain. After operationalizing some key concepts (race, racism and racialization), we offer a historical and social contextualization on the construction of the idea of race in Spain, and we provide sociodemographic data on the prevalence of racism in Spanish society. Second, we provide ethnographic information. Through the analysis of narratives of descendants of mixed unions residing in Spain, we exemplify the extent to which the idea of race plays a central role in the experiences of stigmatization and discrimination of an increasingly important part of the Spanish population.