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  • Scales of Whiteness and Racial Mixing: Challenging and Confirming Racial Categories

    Scales of Whiteness and Racial Mixing: Challenging and Confirming Racial Categories The Geographical Bulletin Gamma Theta Upsilon – The International Geographic Honor Socieety Volume 50-2, November 2009 pages 93-110 Serin D. Houston Department of Geography Syracuse University This paper examines personal and public portrayals of the self and family articulated by heterosexual mixed-race households living…

  • In search of the power of whiteness: A genealogical exploration of negotiated racial identities in America’s ethnic past

    In search of the power of whiteness: A genealogical exploration of negotiated racial identities in America’s ethnic past Communication Quarterly Volume 50, Issue 3-4 (2002) pages 391-409 DOI: 10.1080/01463370209385674 Roberto Avant‐Mier, Associate Professor of Communication University of Texas, El Paso Marouf Hasian Jr., Professor of Communation University of Utah In this essay, the authors explore…

  • Developing: Supreme Court vacates Freedmen ruling

    Developing: Supreme Court vacates Freedmen ruling Cherokee Phoenix 2011-08-23 Christina Good Voice, Senior Reporter Tahlequah, Okla. – The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court issued a 16-page ruling Aug. 22 that reversed and vacated the decision of the CN District Court regarding the Cherokee Freedmen, stating that the Cherokee people had the right to amend the CN…

  • Identity and Public Policy: Redefining the Concept of Racial Democracy in Brazil

    Identity and Public Policy: Redefining the Concept of Racial Democracy in Brazil Harvard Journal of African American Policy 2011 Edition Krystle Norman Krystle Norman is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, where she received her master’s degree in public policy. In 2008, she received her bachelor’s degree from the University of…

  • Race in Brazil: Out of Eden

    Race in Brazil: Out of Eden The Economist 2003-07-03 Brazil used to think it could be colour-blind. Alas, no longer JOANA, an actress and student, is white, or at least that is what her birth certificate says. She has a white father, a mixed-race mother and skin the colour of cappuccino. But she considers herself…

  • Is the high value placed on the beauty of mulatas in Brazil an example of Brazil’s racial democracy or, in fact, an instance of its profound racism?

    Is the high value placed on the beauty of mulatas in Brazil an example of Brazil’s racial democracy or, in fact, an instance of its profound racism? IDEATE The Undergraduate Journal of Sociology University of Essex Volume 6, Summer 2011 8 pages Bethan Rafferty SC386 Anthropology of Latin America: Race, Gender and Identity The role…

  • Blonde Beauties and Black Booties: Racial Hierarchies in Brazil

    Blonde Beauties and Black Booties: Racial Hierarchies in Brazil Ms. Magazine Blog 2010-06-11 Erica Williams, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Model scouts strategically target towns in Southern Brazil to “find the right genetic cocktail of German and Italian ancestry, perhaps with some Russian or other Slavic blood thrown in,” explains Alexei Barrionuevo…

  • The tan from Ipanema: Freyre, Morenidade, and the cult of the body in Rio De Janeiro

    The tan from Ipanema: Freyre, Morenidade, and the cult of the body in Rio De Janeiro Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies October 2009 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Art Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada She says she has brown skin, and a feverish body And inside the chest, love of Brazil…

  • Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America

    Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America Black in Latin America Public Broadcasting Service April 2011 Gates discusses his new project in this interview from the PBS site. First, could you talk a little bit about this project? I conceived of this as a trilogy of documentary series that…

  • 20 years after riots, Crown Heights is now a mixed racial haven

    20 years after riots, Crown Heights is now a mixed racial haven New York Daily News 2011-08-14 Simone Weichselbaum, Staff Writer Crown Heights has become a mixed race mecca. The Brooklyn neighborhood infamous for the 1991 riot between blacks and Jews has the second-most residents who identify as being both black and white, the latest…