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  • Racial identity: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Anatole Broyard The Globe and Mail 1999-11-23 Robert Fulford For many years, Anatole Broyard of The New York Times was a dashing figure in literary New York, a critic of exceptional charm and wit. He was said to be one of those people who talk spontaneously in well-shaped…

  • Words of Obama’s Father Still Waiting to Be Read by His Son The New York Times 2016-06-18 Rachel L. Swarns Family portraits, including one of President Barack Obama’s father, center, hang in his family’s house in Kogelo, western Kenya, in 2008. Credit Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Letters written long ago by Barack Obama Sr. shed new…

  • 9 Famous Faces On The Struggles And Beauty Of Being Afro-Latino The Huffington Post 2016-02-18 Carolina Moreno, Editor Afro-Latinos face many challenges when it comes to identity, particularly when people refuse to believe that being Black and Latino aren’t mutually exclusive experiences. The Latino identity denotes an ethnicity, which means that Latinos exist in every…

  • A Brazilian Artist’s ‘Self-Portraits’ Explore The Beauty Of Interracial Identity The Huffington Post 2016-06-17 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor In honor of mestizaje, Adriana Varejão paints herself donning the markings and ornamentation of Native Americans. In 1976, a Brazilian census asked citizens of the country — for the very first time — to…

  • Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil Duke University Press 1999 304 pages 11 b&w photographs, 4 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2260-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2292-4 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Winner, Brazil in Comparative Perspective section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Best Book…

  • Race and Nation in Modern Latin America University of North Carolina Press March 2003 352 pages 5 illus., notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5441-9 Edited By: Nancy P. Appelbaum, Associate professor of History State University of New York, Binghamton Anne S. Macpherson, Associate Professor of History State University of New York, Brockport…

  • Café con leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela University of Texas Press 1990 184 pages 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-292-79080-3 Winthrop R. Wright, Professor Emeritus of History University of Maryland For over a hundred years, Venezuelans have referred to themselves as a café con leche (coffee with milk) people. This colorful expression well…

  • Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 University of Pittsburgh Press August 2007 216 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 9780822959656 Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of Latin American History Universidad Nacional de Colombia This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most…

  • Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil Rutgers University Press November 2001 278 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3000-0 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-5602-4 Robin E. Sheriff, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of New Hampshire In the 1933 publication The Masters and the Slaves, Brazilian scholar and novelist Gilberto Freyre challenged the racist…

  • The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case Tripod: New Orleans At 300 89.9 FM WWNO New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-06-16 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Producer The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190) THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind…