Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America is a book by sociologist Edward Telles and the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2014.

[1] The book attempts to look at race relations within Peru, Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil using statistical methods and comparing national census data over hundreds of years.

The final chapter is an analysis of the overall findings of the survey from the four countries.

[3] Reviewed by Ellis P. Monk in the American Journal of Sociology 121 (2015): 971-973.

[5] This article about a non-fiction book on Brazilian history is a stub.