Category: Anthropology

  • Daniel Lind Ramos and the Visual Politics of Race in Puerto Rican Art Theory and Critique of Art in the Caribbean 2015-11-11 Fabienne Viala, Associate Professor; Director of the Year Abroad; Director of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies School of Modern Languages and Cultures University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom This article discusses…

  • “What? Black people in the Dominican Republic?” Yes amig@*, there are Black Dominican people whose ancestors descend from the African motherland. However, the question is not so much, “Are there Black people in the Dominican Republic?” as it is “Are Dominican people Black?”

  • The Relationship of Identity to the Organizational Development of FLECHAS: Perceptions of Race from a Puerto Rican Perspective The Forensic Examiner June 2015 Raul A. Avila The Puerto Rican preoccupation with “whitening” and incidents of black racism obfuscate Puerto Rican identity. The “deliberate amnesia” regarding their genetic and cultural connection with Black African slaves compels…

  • How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts University of California Press January 2014 232 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520280076 Paperback ISBN: 9780520280083 Adbobe PDF E-Book ISBN: 9780520957190 ePUB Format ISBN: 9780520957190 Natalia Molina, Associate Dean for Faculty Equity, Division of Arts; Humanities and Associate Professor of History and…

  • Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library, Jones Room 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2016-02-01, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Presented by: James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Jonathan Xavier Inda, Chair and Professor of Latino/a…

  • Viewing Los Angeles Through a Creole Lens The New York Times 2016-01-21 Farai Chideya The pulse of the train on the tracks sets a rhythm as its passenger cars seem to skim over Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. These six miles of nothing but sky above and water below are the gateway into the city…

  • Call For Papers: Encyclopedia of Racism in American Cinema Salvador Jimenez Murguia, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology Akita International University, Akita City, Akita Prefecture, Japan 2016-01-11 The volume Encyclopedia of Racism in American Cinema, takes up the topic of racism in American Cinema from its early days of film production to the present. Covering over…

  • At a Santo Domingo Hair Salon, Rethinking an Ideal Look The New York Times 2015-12-30 Sandra E. Garcia On my first trip back to the Dominican Republic in 10 years, as I wandered down the streets of La Zona Colonial, I noticed how their names were weighted with history. Calle de las Damas, a street…

  • Exhibit by Penn cultural anthropologist showcases Afro-Latinos in Philadelphia Penn Current: News, ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania 2015-12-10 Jacquie Posey Free and enslaved Africans shaped and built Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Their descendants, known as Afro-Latinos, are featured in a new photo exhibition by cultural anthropologist Sandra Andino, associate director…

  • Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race New York University Press April 2014 273 pages 12 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9781479812981 Paper ISBN: 9781479859498 Ellen Samuels, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English University of Wisconsin, Madison In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white,…