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  • Examining ‘Latinidad’ in Latin America: Race, ‘Latinidad’ and the Decolonial Option Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Volume 8, Number 2, (2012) Directions and Intersections 11 pages Eugenia Demuro, Visiting Fellow School of Language Studies, College of Arts and Social Sciences Australian National University This article provides a critical…

  • The Evolution and Genetics of Latin American Populations Cambridge University Press December 2001 528 pages 12 b/w illus. 128 tables 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN: 9780521652759 Paperback ISBN: ISBN:9780521022392 eBook ISBN: 9780511837128 Francisco M. Salzano Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Maria C. Bortolini Universidade Federal…

  • Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (Review) French History Volume 27, Issue 1 (2013) pages 135-137 DOI: 10.1093/fh/crs158 Emily Musil Church, Assistant Professor of History Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique. By Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. 312 pp. ISBN: 978…

  • The Myth of Post-Racialism: Hegemonic and Counterhegemonic Stories About Race and Racism in the United States Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Volume 7, Issue 1 (2011) (Special Issue: Post-Racial States) pages 2-25 Babacar M’Baye, Associate Professor of Pan-African Literature and Culture Kent State University In the United States,…

  • Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe [Review] H-net Reviews H-SAfrica April 2007 Elizabeth Schmidt, Professor of History Loyola University Maryland James Muzondidya. Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2005. xviii + 323 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-59221-246-0. Based…

  • Ben-Ur awarded study grant by Hadassah-Brandeis Institute In the Loop: News for Staff and Faculty University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2012-12-13 Associate professor Aviva Ben-Ur of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies has been awarded a Senior Grant in History from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for her book project “Eurafrican Identity in a Jewish Society:…

  • Referential Ambiguity in the Calculus of Brazilian Racial Identity Southwestern Journal of Anthropology Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring, 1970) pages 1-14 Marvin Harris (1927-2001) Categorizations elicited from 100 Brazilian informants through the use of a standardized deck of facial drawings suggests that the cognitive domain of racial identity in Brazil is characterized by a high…

  • Racial Identity in Brazil Luso-Brazilian Review Volume 1, Number 2 (Winter, 1964) pages 21-28 Marvin Harris (1927-2001) According to the 1950 census, the population of Brazil consisted of 61.66% brancos, 26.54% pardos, and 10.6% pretos. In the I.B.G.E.’s 1961 review of these facts, the following caution is registered: In order to avoid erroneous interpretation, it…

  • Pigmentocracy in the Americas: How is Educational Attainment Related to Skin Color? Latin American Pubic Opinion Project AmericasBarometer Insights Number 73 (2012) Vanderbilt University 2012-02-20 Number 73 (2012) 9 pages Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Liza Steele Department of Sociology Princeton University Executive Summary: This Insights report addresses the question of whether educational…

  • Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 55, Number 4 (July 2007) pages 709-734 Hugo Ñopo Inter-Amerian Development Bank Jaime Saavedra World Bank Máximo Torero International Food Policy Research Institute This study examines the relationship between earnings and racial differences in a context in which various races have…