Category: Anthropology

  • Emmanuelle Saada. Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies The American Historical Review Volume 118, Issue 2 pages 468-470 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/118.2.468 Gary Wilder, Associate Professor of Anthropology The Graduate Center, City University of New York Emmanuelle Saada, Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago:…

  • The Hip Hop & Obama Reader Oxford University Press 2015-10-14 336 Pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199341801 Paperback ISBN: 9780199341818 Edited by: Travis L. Gosa, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Erik Nielson, Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts University of Richmond Offers a comprehensive, scholarly analysis of the relationship…

  • Puerto Rico is often depicted as a “racial democracy” in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In “Remixing Reggaetón,” Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy’s privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging.

  • Races, Ethnicities, and Cultures Mix More Freely Than Elsewhere in the U.S., But There Are Limits to the Aloha Spirit

  • Grits and Sushi: Mitzi Uehara Carter muses on being black and Okinawan Metropolis Magazine 2015-09-06 Baye Mcneil Mitzi Uehara Carter Though Mitzi Uehara Carter was born on the opposite side of the Pacific, she’s kept herself anything but distant from her hereditary home. This Texas-native daughter of an African-American father and an Okinawan mother is…

  • Hispanic Or Latino? A Guide For The U.S. Presidential Campaign National Public Radio 2015-08-27 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent My parents are Cuban and Panamanian. I grew up in Miami. I travel broadly in Latin America but reside in Brazil, which speaks Portuguese, not Spanish. So what am I? This may seem an irrelevant question…

  • Dark-Skinned Or Black? How Afro-Brazilians Are Forging A Collective Identity Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-08-12 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent Sisters Francine and Fernanda Gravina have German, Italian, African and indigenous ancestry. (Lourdes Garcia-Navarro/NPR) If you want to get a sense of how complex racial identity is in…

  • Brazil is combating many kinds of inequality. But one of the world’s most diverse nations is still just beginning to talk about race

  • This Instagram Project is Giving a Voice to the “Blaxican” Experience Remezcla 2015-07-28 Yara Simón The history of race in the United States is often told in terms of black and white, a binary that leaves many out of the equation. “Blaxican” researcher Walter Thompson-Hernandez is trying to expand the conversation, with a project that…

  • A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba