Category: Anthropology

  • Afro-Latinas Work for Cultural Survival teleSUR 2015-03-20 Mai’a Williams Quito, Ecuador In recent years, there has been a resurgence of Afro-Latino youth in the U.S. rooting themselves, their families and their communities in their African heritages as a way to create cultures of resistance to the dominant narratives of colonization and white supremacy. These movements…

  • In the Creole Twilight: Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore Louisiana State University Press September 2015 88 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 30 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807161548 Joshua Clegg Caffery, Visiting Professor in Folklore Indiana University, Bloomington Many recurring motifs found in south Louisiana’s culture spring from the state’s rich folklore. Influenced by settlers of…

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Human Appearance Chapter in Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance 2012 Pages 707–710 DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384925-0.00111-5 S. McClure Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio M. Poole Emery University, Atlanta, Georgia E.P. Anderson-Fye Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio This article examines the intersection of race, ethnicity, and the body. Standards of beauty,…

  • You may not know it — but if you speak Spanish, you speak some Arabic too PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2015-10-15 Joy Diaz, Reporter Rihab Massif, originally from Lebanon, was my daughter’s preschool teacher in Austin. As a little girl, Camila, my daughter, spoke mostly in Spanish. And Massif remembers a day when…

  • In February, Latina magazine listed “6 Afro-Latinas Who Are Changing the World.” Naturally, Miriam Jiménez Román was second on the list.

  • Check Both! Afro-Latin@s and the Census NACLA: Reporting on the Americas Since 1967 2010 Miriam Jiménez Román Earlier in 2010 a series of public service announcements circulated on the Internet in anticipation of the U.S. Census. The three short videos, produced and disseminated by the afrolatin@ forum, a New York–based educational nonprofit, urged Latin@s to…

  • ‘Mejorar la Raza’: An Example of Racism in Latino Culture Latino Voices Huffington Post 2015-06-15 Maria Alejandra Casale-Hardin University of California, Hastings, Law Class of 2018 Samuel Lange Zambrano portraying a 9-year-old Venezuelan boy obsessed with straightening his hair in the 2013 film Pelo Malo. ‘Mejorar la raza’ is a common phrase used in Latin…

  • European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe University of Minnesota Press 2011 304 pages 6 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-7016-1 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-7015-4 Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of African-American Literature and Culture University of California, San Diego European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European…

  • I’m white in Barcelona but in Los Angeles I’m Hispanic? Public Radio International 2015-10-27 Jaime Gonzalez, BBC World Service Journalist Los Angeles, California “You’re not white, where are you from?” This is how I was greeted a few months ago by a young Black man I interviewed in Los Angeles for a story I was…

  • Revisiting Palmares: Maroon Communities in Brazil (Celeste Henery) African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2015-11-09 Celeste Henery, Postdoctoral Fellow University of Texas, Austin This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. She completed a PhD…