Category: Anthropology

  • Celebrating Afro-Venezuelan Heritage Global Exchange Reality Tour Blog 2013-12-13 The following post is written by Reality Tours communications intern William Jones Jr as he explores Afro-Venezuelan identity historically and in its current context. Visit Venezuela on a Reality Tour to learn more about the struggles, contributions, and successes of Afro-Venezuelans. History and Legacy Under the…

  • Whiter Shades of Pale: “Coloring In” Machado de Assis and Race in Contemporary Brazil Latin American Research Review Volume 48, Number 3 (2013) pages 3-24 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2013.0046 Alex Flynn, Lecturer in Anthropology Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom Elena Calvo-González, Professor of Anthropology Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Marcelo Mendes de Souza Department of Comparative Literature…

  • Racial Democracy and Nationalism in Panama Ethnology Volume 45, Number 3 (Summer, 2006) pages 209-228 DOI: 10.2307/20456595 Carla Guerrón-Montero, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Black American Studies, and Women’s Studies University of Delaware In spite of having more fluid and flexible racial boundaries than other regions of the world, Latin America continues to…

  • Drawing from exhaustive research in the Netherlands, Europe and the Americas, Altena offers illuminating new insights into mixed-marriage families as they were depicted in the arts and in news media; and how the families themselves in turn reacted to, and influenced those images. The author focuses on well-documented individuals and shows how they gained a…

  • Biracial Girls Will Be Fine If Their Dolls Don’t Look Like Them The Root 2013-12-27 Jenée Desmond-Harris Race Manners: A rainbow of toys is great, but how kids live is much more important than how they play. “Hello. I’m wondering if you can offer some broad guidance before I head out to the malls for…

  • Is Race a Fiction? Ideas with Paul Kennedy CBC Radio-Canada 2013-12-04 Paul Kennedy, Host Blood ties you to family, country and race. Should it? Watch a live panel discussion with Lawrence Hill, Priscila Uppal, Hayden King and Karina Vernon moderated by Ideas host Paul Kennedy. What happens to personal identity when race is removed as…

  • From hair care to racism, Afro-Germans share experiences online DW: Deutsche Welle Berlin/Bonn, Germany 2013-12-18 Lori Herber, Cologne Two 20-somethings in Germany have launched krauselocke.de, the country’s first online portal with an Afro-German perspective. For many in the community, it’s more than hair advice – it’s a roadmap to identity After growing up with few…

  • Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality by Anita González (review) Latin American Music Review Volume 34, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2013 pages 288-291 DOI: 10.1353/lat.2013.0019 Alex E. Chávez, Visiting Assistant Professor Latin American and Latino Studies Program University of Illinois, Chicago Anita González, Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality. With photographs by George O. Jackson and…

  • A Study of Tri-Racial Isolates in Eastern United States Human Heredity Volume 6, Number 3, 1956/1957 DOI: 10.1159/000150862 pages 410–412 C. J. Witkop National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. There are known to exist in the eastern part of…

  • Colloquium: Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind University of Pennsylvania 103 McNeil Building 3718 Locust Walk Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6299 Wednesday, 2014-01-29, 12:00-13:00 EST (Local Time) Osagie K. Obasogie, Professor of Law University of California, Hastings College of the Law Professor Obasogie’s research attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological gaps between…