A variety of philosophers and social theorists have thought that Latinxs don’t fit the usual identity categories in the United States. The category doesn’t seem like a racial category, because its members can be members of any racial group. It also doesn’t seem especially promising as an ethnic category, because it is unclear that there is sufficient cultural overlap amongst its members to constitute an ethnic group. Various other proposals—ethnorace, historical families, affordances, and so on—all seem to face their own problems. There is a way to sidestep many of the familiar challenges to the category, but it comes at the cost of doing both more and less than we might hope for a social identity category. Even so, this shows us something important about the limits and significance of such categories. Manuel Vargas, professor at UC San Diego will discuss this topic.