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  • Who Is Black in Brazil? A Timely or a False Question in Brazilian Race Relations in the Era of Affirmative Action?

    At the end of 2001 the question of race became part of the Brazilian national agenda under the pressure of black social movements for the establishment of quotas for admission of Afro-Brazilians to public universities.

  • Long Lance

    Long Lance National Film Board of Canada 1986 Running Time: 00:55:00 Bernie Dichek, Director Was he a black man, a white man, or an Indian chief? This documentary looks at legendary and fascinating impostor Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. In the early 1900s, he garnered international acclaim as a soldier, journalist, writer, photographer, bon vivant…

  • Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #217 – Marcia Dawkins When: Wednesday, 2011-07-27…

  • Maroon – On the Trail of Creoles in North America

    Maroon – On the Trail of Creoles in North America National Film Board of Canada 2005 Running Time: 01:15:08 André Gladu, Director Colette Loumède, Producer Louisiana’s Creole culture helped shape the New World and contributed to the emergence of jazz. But what remains of this unique, mixed-race society, with roots in France, Africa, the Caribbean,…

  • Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic

    Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic Political Psychology Volume 22, Issue 4 (December 2001) pages 827–851 DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00264 Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and African and African American Studies Harvard University Yesilernis Pena Mark Sawyer, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science University of California, Los Angeles This study explored…

  • Pigmentocracy

    Pigmentocracy Freedom’s Story: Teaching African American Literature and History National Humanities Center April 2010 Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, Emerita University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Definition and Background In the past couple of decades, the word pigmentocracy has come into common usage to refer to the distinctions that people of African…

  • The myth of racial democracy and national identity in Brazil

    The myth of racial democracy and national identity in Brazil The New School, New York, New York February 2006 195 pages Publication Number: AAT 3239941 ISBN: 9780542943904 Leone Campos de Sousa Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of…

  • Into the Arms of America: The Korean Roots of International Adoption

    Into the Arms of America: The Korean Roots of International Adoption The University of Chicago August 2008 248 pages Publication Number: AAT 3322621 ISBN: 9780549742289 Arissa Hyun Jung Oh A Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the division of Social Sciences in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of History This dissertation…

  • Critical Narrative of Multiracial Women’s Personal Journey: Negotiating the Intersectionallity of Race and Gender Issues in a Monoracial Paradigm

    Critical Narrative of Multiracial Women’s Personal Journey: Negotiating the Intersectionallity of Race and Gender Issues in a Monoracial Paradigm Georgia Southern University June 2011 264 pages Geralda Silva Nelson A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Education The aim of…

  • Kept In, Kept Out: The Formation of Racial Identity in Brazil, 1930-1937

    Kept In, Kept out : The Formation of Racial Identity in Brazil, 1930-1937 Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada November 1996 95 pages Veronica Armstrong Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Latin American Studies Program This thesis examines the roles of historian Gilberto…