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  • Danzas Nacionalistas: The representation of history through folkloric dance in Venezuela

    Danzas Nacionalistas: The representation of history through folkloric dance in Venezuela Critique of Anthropology (2002) Vol. 22, No. 3 pages 257-282 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X02022003758 Iveris Luz Martínez Johns Hopkins University In this article I argue that the nation is not only invented or imagined, but depends on activities and practices in order to be invented and…

  • Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican demography approximates the present-day ancestry of Mestizos throughout the territory of Mexico

    Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican demography approximates the present-day ancestry of Mestizos throughout the territory of Mexico American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 139 Issue 3 Pages 284 – 294 Published Online: 2009-01-12 Rodrigo Rubi-Castellanos Instituto de Investigación en Genética Molecular, Centro Universitario de la Ciénega, (CUCiénega-UdeG), Ocotlán, Jalisco, México Gabriela Martínez-Cortés Instituto de Investigación en Genética Molecular,…

  • “If Races Don’t Exist, Then Why Am I White?”: The Race Concept Within Contemporary Forensic Anthropology

    “If Races Don’t Exist, Then Why Am I White?”: The Race Concept Within Contemporary Forensic Anthropology Focus Anthropology: A Publication of Undergraduate Research Issue VIII: 2009 Kenyon University 20 pages M. Todd Gross Western Michigan University It is fundamental for human beings to ask why and how things happen. Looking across the globe it is…

  • La Mulata: Cuba’s National Symbol

    La Mulata: Cuba’s National Symbol Focus Anthropology: A Publication of Undergraduate Research Issue IV: 2004-2005 20 pages Tamara Kneese Kenyon College This essay provides a discourse analysis of la mulata as an ambivalent symbol of Cuban national identity. In many ways, la mulata is representative of Cuba’s sexual, racial, and economic hierarchies. On the one…

  • Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

    With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies…

  • Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child’s Construction of Human Kinds

    “Race in the Making” provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power.

  • Race Bending: “Mixed” Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California

    Race Bending: “Mixed” Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California Anthropology & Education Quarterly Volume 35 Issue 1 (March 2004) Pages 30-52 DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.1.30 Mica Pollock, Associate Professor of Education Harvard University As more U.S. youth claim “mixed” heritages, some adults are proposing to erase race words altogether from the nation’s inequality analysis. Yet such proposals, as…

  • The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race

    The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race Child Development Volume 66 Issue 5 (October 1995) Pages 1418 – 1437 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1995.tb00943.x Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Professor, Anthropology & Psychology Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts 4 experiments explored adult and grade school children’s beliefs about inheritability of identity,…

  • Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala

    Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala University of Arizona Press 2010 192 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2767-0 Brigittine M. French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged…

  • Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities

    Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 37, Issue 02 May 2005 pp 259-284 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05009004 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis Through a genealogical analysis of the terms mestizo and mestizaje, this article reveals that these voices are doubly hybrid.…