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  • The Myth of Race: The Troubling and Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman (review)

    The Myth of Race: The Troubling and Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman (review) Journal of Social History Volume 49, Number 3, Spring 2016 pages 740-741 Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and Professor of History and Sociology George Washington University The Myth of Race: The Troubling and…

  • Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity

    “Necessarily Black”is an ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the United States and a theoretical attempt to broaden and complicate current discussions about race and racial identity in the twenty-first century. P. Khalil Saucier grapples with the performance, embodiment, and nuances of racialized identities (blackened bodies) in empirical contexts.

  • Impeachment, culture wars and the politics of identity in Brazil

    Impeachment, culture wars and the politics of identity in Brazil The Conversation 2016-05-26 Marshall Eakin, Professor of History Vanderbilt University Brazil is in the midst of its worst political crisis since the 1960s and possibly its most severe economic downturn in the last 100 years. The economy will not – and cannot – improve until…

  • Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity

    In “Negras in Brazil,” Kia Lilly Caldwell examines the life experiences of Afro-Brazilian women whose stories have until now been largely untold. This pathbreaking study analyzes the links between race and gender and broader processes of social, economic, and political exclusion.

  • Recovering the Afro-Metropolis Before Windrush

    Recovering the Afro-Metropolis Before Windrush Christian John Høgsbjerg University of Leeds Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 13, Issue 1 (The Caribbean Radical Tradition) May 2016 Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015), 410 pp. In Black London, Marc Matera’s wide-ranging historical…

  • ‘We are Iranians’: Rediscovering the history of African slavery in Iran

    ‘We are Iranians’: Rediscovering the history of African slavery in Iran Middle East Eye 2016-05-09 Jillian D’Amours ST CATHARINES, Canada – Behnaz Mirzai’s students often say her office is like a museum. With shards of ancient pottery recovered from the mountains of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province, colourful vases from Isfahan, and tribal masks from…

  • “Marrying Out” for Love: Women’s Narratives of Polygyny and Alternative Marriage Choices in Contemporary Senegal

    “Marrying Out” for Love: Women’s Narratives of Polygyny and Alternative Marriage Choices in Contemporary Senegal African Studies Review Volume 59, Number 1, April 2016 pages 155-174 Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Lecturer in African Studies University College London This article examines the ways in which childhood and youth experiences of living in polygynous households shape the aspirations…

  • Colorism

    Colorism The Podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You 2016-04-13 Cristen Conger, Co-host Caroline Ervin, Co-host Why does lighter skin improve women’s chances of getting through school, getting a job and getting married? Cristen and Caroline explore the historical roots, repercussions and cross-cultural shades of colorism around the world. Listen to the episode (00:48:48) here. Download…

  • #BlackLivesMatter in Latin America: Race, Space and Consciousness

    #BlackLivesMatter in Latin America: Race, Space and Consciousness New York University Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square New York, New York 10003 Monday, 2016-04-18 18:30-20:00 EDT (Local Time) The hashtag turned social movement, #blacklivesmatter, has thrust police brutality and institutionalized racism into the American consciousness. African descendants in Latin America are concurrently…

  • The Specter of Races: Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars

    Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars.