Author: Steven

  • Where Is the Carnivalesque in Rio’s Carnaval? Samba, Mulatas and Modernity Visual Anthropology Volume 21, Issue 2 (2008) pages 95-111 DOI: 10.1080/08949460701688775 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada This article chronicles the historical normalization of carnaval parades and samba performances in Rio de Janeiro, by looking at the progressive…

  • Hybridity Brazilian Style: Samba, Carnaval, and the Myth of “Racial Democracy” in Rio de Janeiro Identities Volume 15, Issue 1 (2008) pages 80-102 DOI: 10.1080/10702890701801841 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Through ethnographic and historical inquiry, this article inspects the usefulness of the concept of hybridity for an analysis…

  • Is the Discourse of Hybridity a Celebration of Mixing, or a Reformulation of Racial Division? A Multimodal Analysis of the Portuguese Magazine Afro Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Reasearch Volume 11, Number 2, Article 24 (May 2010) 29 pages ISSN: 1438-5627 José Ricardo Carvalheiro, Assistant Professor in the Communication and Arts Department University…

  • As [Matt] Wray puts it: “It speaks to the fastest-growing segment of Americans—those of mixed race—starting to rewrite the script. Obama, in his blackness, is free to explore his whiteness.” The circle won’t be closed, of course, until millions of white Americans embrace the Africa in their pasts. Forty million claim Irish roots. How many…

  • …Consider the irony of a man so long under fire for his origins, comes to Ireland to celebrate one strand of those origins. He is called black because in the United States, we are messed up about origins. Why not call him “Barack Obama, America’s 44th white president?” Or “America’s third Irish American president” (after…

  • This essay is a response to an article recently published by Will South titled “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” in the journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. Tanner was the foremost African American artist of the late 19th century. He has emerged as an exemplar of Black achievement in the arts and is…

  • Painting the World’s Christ: Tanner, Hybridity, and the Blood of the Holy Land Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a journal of ninetheenth-century visual culture Volume 3, Issue 2 (Autumn 2004) Alan C. Braddock, Assistant Professor of Art History Tyler School of Art, Temple University Henry Ossawa Tanner’s global vision of Christ circa 1900 projected an ideal of…

  • Affirming Blackness: A Rebuttal to Will South’s “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a journal of ninetheenth-century visual culture Volume 9, Issue 2 (Autumn 2010) Naurice Frank Woods, Visiting Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro George Dimock, Associate Professor of Art History University of…

  • The Blackfoot Tribe of the Midsouth American Society of Ethnohistory Conference “Blackfoot, Redbones, Brass Ankles and Pied Noir: Colorful Identities, Creative Strategies American Society of Ethnohistory conference” Santa Fe, New Mexico 2005-11-18 through 2005-11-20 2005-11-19 Carol A. Morrow, Professor of Anthropology Southeast Missouri State University Over the years, I have had a number of African-American…

  • The First Black Prairie Novel: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance’s Autobiography and the Repression of Prairie Blackness Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 45, Number 2 (Spring 2011) pages 31-57 E-ISSN: 1911-0251; Print ISSN: 0021-9495 DOI: 10.1353/jcs.2011.0022 Karina Vernon, Assistant Professor of English University of Toronto This essay situates Chief Buffalo Child’s Long Lance:…