Mixed Race Studies

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  • African Americans and National Identities in Central America

    African Americans and National Identities in Central America Rina Cáceres, Professor of Diaspora Studies Program at the Centro de Investigationes Historicas de America Central Universidad de Costa Rica Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mount Holyoke University Mauricio Meléndez An interdisciplinary, multinational research program to reconceptualize and document, both visually and textually,…

  • The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cósmica

    The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cósmica Johns Hopkins University Press 1997 (originally published in 1925) 160 pages Paperback: 9780801856556 José Vasconcelos translated, with an introduction, by Didier T. Jaén afterword by Joseba Gabilondo “The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. Having…

  • The Cosmic Race by José Vasconcelos: “La Raza Cósmica” and Issues of Racial Diversity and Purity

    The Cosmic Race by José Vasconcelos: “La Raza Cósmica” and Issues of Racial Diversity and Purity suite101.com 2010-01-26 Melanie Zoltan, Adjunct Professor of History Bay Path College In “The Cosmic Race” (“La Raza Cósmica” in Spanish), José Vasconcelos argues that racial diversity and interbreeding will produce one superior race. Is it code for purity? While…

  • Engineering American society: the lesson of eugenics

    Engineering American society: the lesson of eugenics Nature Reviews Genetics Volume 1, November 2000 pages 153-158 David Micklos DNA Learning Centre Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York Elof Carlson, Professor Emeritus State University of New York, Stony Brook We stand at the threshold of a new century, with the whole human genome stretched out before…

  • Prejudice inspires filmmaker to discover Afro-German roots

    Prejudice inspires filmmaker to discover Afro-German roots Indiana Daily Student Indiana University 2010-01-24 Abby Liebenthal, Staff Reporter “It all started with a public threat on my life.” Within the first few minutes of Mo Asumang’s documentary “Roots Germania,” students, faculty and Bloomington residents became part of a search for the director’s identity… …Asumang said the…

  • Desire for Race

    What do people mean when they talk about race? Are they acknowledging a biological fact, a social reality, or a cultural identity? Is race real, or is it merely an illusion? This book brings analytical clarity to one of the most vexed topics in the social sciences today, arguing that race is no more than…

  • Africanastudies: YouTube Channel

    Africanastudies: YouTube Channel First Documentary Posted: 2008-03-27 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University Reconstructs the involuntary planetary dispersion of African populations, with their millenary cultural capitals, between the 15th and 19th centuries; and analyses the africanization of the places of arrival through their ethnic contributions. Reconstruye la dispersión planetaria…

  • Africa in Mexico: A Repudiated Heritage/África en México: una herencia repudiada

    Africa in Mexico: A Repudiated Heritage/África en México: una herencia repudiada Edwin Mellen Press 2007 140 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-5216-8; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5216-9 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University This study explores the African presence in Mexico and the impact it has had on the development of Mexican national identity over…

  • The Africanization of Mexico from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

    The Africanization of Mexico from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Edwin Mellen Press 2010 212 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-3781-9; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-3781-4 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University This work is an Afrocentric analysis that subscribes to the notion that there is one human race of multiple ethnicities. It acknowledges…

  • Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music

    Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music Temple University Press December 2009 238 pp 6×9 1 figure 5 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-43990-090-1; ISBN: 1-4399-0090-6 Cloth EAN: 978-1-43990-089-5; ISBN: 1-4399-0089-2 Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Tufts University Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed “Oye Como…