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  • “Quadroon” Balls in the Spanish Period

    “Quadroon” Balls in the Spanish Period Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Volume 14, Number 3 (Summer, 1973) pages 310-315 Translated and Edited by Ronald R. Morazan, Assistant Professor of History Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana With the influx of free blacks into Spanish Louisiana from the island of Santo Domingo, the…

  • PBS series explores black culture in Latin America

    PBS series explores black culture in Latin America 2011-04-18 Jennifer Kay Associated Press MIAMI—On a street in a seaside city in Brazil, four men describe themselves to Henry Louis Gates Jr. as black. Flabbergasted, the Harvard scholar insists they compare their skin tones with his. In a jumble, their forearms form a mocha spectrum. Oh,…

  • Exploring the Popularization of the Mixed Race American

    Exploring the Popularization of the Mixed Race American The Human Experience: Inside the Humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-22 Stanford Scholar Investigates the “Mulatto Millennium” through Literature, Theatre, Art, & Pop Culture The United States has its first mixed race president, a man with a black African father and white American mother. Actress Halle Barry, golfer…

  • Recasting the Tribe of Ishmael: The Role of Indianapolis’s Nineteenth-Century Poor in Twentieth-Century Eugenics

    Recasting the Tribe of Ishmael: The Role of Indianapolis’s Nineteenth-Century Poor in Twentieth-Century Eugenics Indiana Magazine of History Volume 104, Issue 1 (March 2008) pages 36-64 ISSN: 0019-66737 Elsa F. Kramer The Tribe of Ishmael is a biblically derived moniker for hundreds of impoverished late-19th-century immigrants in Indianapolis whose applications for unrestricted public relief during an…

  • Brazil’s census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves

    Brazil’s census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves The Guardian 2010-08-25 Tom Phillip Interviewers plan to reach 190m people, including the long-ignored Kalunga, by motorbike, plane, canoe and donkey When Jorge Moreira de Oliveira’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather arrived in Brazil in the 18th century he was counted off the slave-ship, branded and dispatched to…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson] American Anthropologist Volume 110, Issue 1 (March 2008) pp. 79–80 ISSN 0002-7294; online ISSN 1548-1433 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00013.x Amanda Walker Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? G. Reginald Daniel.…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Bailey]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Bailey] Contemporary Sociology Volume 36, Number 6 (November 2007) pages 535-536 DOI: 10.1177/009430610703600609 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?, by G. Reginald Daniel. University Park, PA: The…

  • French colonial and post-colonial hybridity: condition métisse

    French colonial and post-colonial hybridity: condition métisse Journal of European Studies Volume 28, Number 1 (1998) pages 103-120 DOI: 10.1177/004724419802800108 Dina Sherzer, Professor Emeritus of French and Italian and Comparative Literature The University of Texas, Austin One of the central issues which shapes and agitates contemporary France, as well as other European countries, is that…

  • Deconstructing the Visual: The Diasporic Hybridity of Asian and Eurasian Female Images

    Deconstructing the Visual: The Diasporic Hybridity of Asian and Eurasian Female Images Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context Australian National University Issue 8, October 2002 45 paragraphs ISSN 1440 9151 Julie Matthews, Associate Professor and Director of Research Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia Introduction…

  • Qualitative Interviews of Racial Fluctuations: The “How” of Latina/o-White Hybrid Identity

    Qualitative Interviews of Racial Fluctuations: The “How” of Latina/o-White Hybrid Identity Communication Theory Volume 21, Issue 2 (May 2011) pages 197–216 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01382.x Shane T. Moreman, Associate Professor of Communications California State University, Fresno Using qualitiative interviewing, this article exposes the performative moments of the Latina/o-White hybrid social actor (i.e., individuals born of one White…