Category: Articles

  • Black into White in Nineteenth Century Spanish America: Afro-American Assimilation in Argentina and Costa Rica Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Volume 5, Number 1 (May 1984) pages 34-49 DOI: 10.1080/01440398408574864 Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mout Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts In his masterful study of…

  • Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill Associated Press 2012-08-08 Stan Lehman San Paulo—The Brazilian Senate has approved an affirmative action bill that reserves half the spots in federal universities for high school graduates of public schools, and distributes them according to the racial makeup of each state. The Senate’s news agency says the bill that…

  • Liberating Blackness: The Theme of Whitening in Two Colombian Short Stories Callaloo Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 475-493 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2012.0074 Laurence E. Prescott, Professor Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Pennsylvania State University Hablaré del físico de los negros, casi como de carrera. Tienen dos cosas repugnantes para no gustar, el color negro…

  • The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (review) Callaloo Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 548-551 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2012.0030 Daynali Flores-Rodriguez, Adjunct Professor of Spanish Inter-American University of Puerto Rico Jiménez Román, Miriam, and Juan Flores, eds. The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. Durham: Duke UP, 2010. Published a…

  • Who Is Jamaica? The New York Times 2012-08-05 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica DURING last week’s independence festivities, I took out my prized commemorative plate. It was a gift from the mother of a long-ago boyfriend who, incomprehensibly, complained constantly that his mother loved me…

  • Far Corner Of The Strange Empire Central Alberta On The Eve Of Homestead Settlement Great Plains Quarterly Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 1983 pages 92-108 William C. Wonders University of Alberta In the latter part of the nineteenth century, what is now central Alberta was a region in transition. For centuries the area had been…

  • Indigenous Nationalities and the Mestizo Dilemma Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-07-24 Duane Champagne, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles Mestizo. Métis. Mixed bloods. Though clearly different, all these terms are used to racially classify people with Indian ancestry. However, the definitions vary—and none is wholly satisfactory.   Part of the problem is…

  • Introduction: Passing, Imitations, Crossings Humanities Research Volume XVI. Number 1 (2010) Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University When it was revealed that Anglo-Australian writer Helen Darville had passed as Ukrainian to publish a novel about the Holocaust, there was much public and scholarly debate about the…

  • “Recoil” or “Seize”?: Passing, Ekphrasis and “Exact Expression” in Nella Larsen’s Passing Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing and Culture Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2001 Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University Part One: Deep Nothing Mona Lisa’s famous smile is a thin mouth receding into…

  • More Than A Few Words About Post-War German Cinema, Race and ‘Toxi’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema of the African Diaspora 2012-08-01 Sergio Mims, Staff Writer For anyone interested in foreign films, one of the most interesting periods of German filmmaking was the post war period between 1946 to the mid 1960’s. In effect, only…