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  • Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity

    Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity University of North Carolina Press September 2009 208 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 2 figs., 4 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3177-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5975-9 Beatriz Góis Dantas, Professor Emerita of Anthropology Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil Translated by Stephen Berg Nagô…

  • The Idea Of Race

    The Idea Of Race Hackett Publishing Company 2000 256 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-87220-459-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-459-1 Paper ISBN: 0-87220-458-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-458-4 Edited by Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Tommy L. Lott, Professor of Philosophy San José State University A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this…

  • The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures

    The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures Routledge 2009-09-10 416 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-49854-8 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-49713-8 Edited by Robin Cohen, Professor of Development Studies and Director of the International Migration Institute University of Oxford Paola Toninato, Research Fellow in Sociology and Italian Studies University of Warwick Increasingly, ‘creolization’ is used to analyse…

  • Situating “Race” And Racisms In Space, Time, And Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars

    Situating “Race” And Racisms In Space, Time, And Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars McGill-Queen’s University Press 2005-04-27 256 pages 6 x 9 Paper: (0773528873) 9780773528871 Cloth: (0773528865) 9780773528864 Edited by Jo-Anne Lee, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies University of Victoria John Sutton Lutz, Associate Professor of History University of Victoria A resource for…

  • Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast

    Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast University of North Carolina Press June 2009 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 18 illus., 2 maps, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN  978-0-8078-3292-9 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5951-3 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond Anthropologists widely agree that identities—even ethnic and racial ones—are socially constructed.…

  • The Coexistence of Race and Racism: Can They Become Extinct Together?

    The Coexistence of Race and Racism: Can They Become Extinct Together? University Press of America June 2005 204 pages Paper 0-7618-3213-0 / 978-0-7618-3213-3 Janis Faye Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Houston Race and racism are interconnected historically and in the modern world. This connection is related to changing social, political, and economic conditions…

  • Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition)

    Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition) University of Illinois Press 1993 Paper: 978-0-252-06321-3 352 pages Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus. Native American Studies and Anthropology University of California, Davis This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and…

  • Black Europe and the African Diaspora

    Black Europe and the African Diaspora University of Illinois Press 2009 368 pages 6 x 9 in.  15 black & white photographs, 1 map Cloth: ISBN 978-0-252-03467-1 Paper: ISBN 978-0-252-07657-2 Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies Northwestern University Trica Danielle Keaton, Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora…

  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America University of Texas Press 2004 6 x 9 in. 216 pp., 3 b&w illus. ISBN: 978-0-292-70596-8 Marilyn Grace Miller, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Tulane University, New Orleans Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and…

  • Reading the Dougla Body: Mixed-race, Post-race, and Other Narratives of What it Means to be Mixed in Trinidad

    Reading the Dougla Body: Mixed-race, Post-race, and Other Narratives of What it Means to be Mixed in Trinidad Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Volume 3, Issue 1 (March 2008) pages 1-31 DOI: 10.1080/17442220701865820 Sarah England, Associate Professor of Anthropology Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, California In recent years there has been a great…