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  • What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated

    What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University 2010-01-13 Issue Maya Rock (Class of 2002) In my first few weeks at Princeton, I became accustomed to fielding questions: What’s your background? Where are your parents from? And the strikingly ­existential: What are you?   What the questioners…

  • Review Essay: Racial Relations and Racism in Brazil

    Review Essay: Racial Relations and Racism in Brazil Culture & Psychology Volume 13, Number 4 (December 2007) pages 461-473 DOI: 10.1177/1354067X07082805 Marcus Eugênio Oliveira Lima Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil Telles, Edward Eric, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton, NJ/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. 324 pp. ISBN 978–0–691–12792–7 (pbk)…

  • Challenging Mestizaje: A Gender Perspective on Indigenous and Afrodescendant Movements in Latin America

    Challenging Mestizaje: A Gender Perspective on Indigenous and Afrodescendant Movements in Latin America Critique of Anthropology Vol. 25, No. 3 pages 307-330 (2005) DOI: 10.1177/0308275X05055217 Helen I. Safa, Professor Emerita of Anthropology/Latin American Studies University of Florida This article compares the contemporary movements for cultural autonomy and social legitimation organized by the indigenous and Afrodescendant…

  • Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje

    Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje Political Research Quarterly Vol. 57, No. 4 pages 597-607 (2004) DOI: 10.1177/106591290405700408 Cristina Beltran, Associate Professor of Political Science Haverford College “Hybridity” has become a popular concept among scholars of critical race theory and identity, particularly those studying Chicano identity. Some scholars claim that hybridity—premised on…

  • Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South

    Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South University of North Carolina Press March 1998 382 pages 6.125 x 9.25 8 tables, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-4712-1 Peter W. Bardaglio, Associate Professor of History Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Winner of the 1996 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians…

  • The Impure Imagination: Toward a Critical Hybridity in Latin American Writing

    The Impure Imagination: Toward a Critical Hybridity in Latin American Writing University of Minnesota Press 2006 288 pages 5 7⁄8 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4786-0; ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4786-6 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4785-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4785-9 Joshua Lund, Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature University of Pittsburgh Challenges conventional thinking about the widely accepted concept of cultural hybridity.…

  • Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600

    Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600 University of Texas Press 2005 6 x 9 in. 391 pp., 20 figures, 11 maps, 2 tables ISBN: 978-0-292-71276-8 Alida C. Metcalf, Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History Rice University, Houston, Texas Doña Marina (La Malinche) …Pocahontas …Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged…

  • Adding up preoccupations about color, race in literature

    Adding up preoccupations about color, race in literature Emory Report Emory University 1999-02-22 Volume 51, Number 21 The class listed in Emory’s spring course atlas as “The Calculus of Color” might at first sound like an art class on color theory, but instructor Cassandra Jackson intends for her class to explore mulatto figures and miscegenation…

  • The Future of Ethnicity Classifications

    The Future of Ethnicity Classifications  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 35, Issue 9 November 2009 pages 1417 – 1435 DOI: 10.1080/13691830903125901 Peter J. Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent In the first decade of the twenty-first century, ‘diversity’ has emerged as a key value in its…

  • The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story

    The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 1 (February 2003) pages 84-118 Martha Hodes, Professor of History New York University There are many ways to expose the mercurial nature of racial classification. Scholars of U.S. history might note, for example, that the category…