Category: Anthropology

  • Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2013-02-15 Antonio Sergio Guimarães, Professor of Sociology Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil I will examine the coining, the uses, and meanings of the expression “racial democracy” from the 1930’s onwards including…

  • Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929–70 Manchester University Press October 2013 192 pages 216 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8867-4 Rochelle Rowe University of Exeter Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history…

  • Reading Series: Quantifying Bloodlines Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturdays, 2013-11-16, 2013-12-07 and 2014-01-25; 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Quantifying Bloodlines is a monthly reading group organized by anthropologist and oral historian Jennifer Scott.  Join others interested in exploring the relationship between biology and race, as we discuss three widely acclaimed books.…

  • Analysis of a Tri-Racial Isolate Human Biology Volume 36, Number 4 (December 1964) pages 362-373 William S. Pollitzer Department of Anatomy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Based on a paper presented at the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Philadelphia, May 2, 1962 A relatively isolated population in the state of…

  • Unbecoming blackness: the diaspora cultures of Afro-Cuban America [Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 5, 2014 pages 889-890 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.847200 Nora Gámez Torres, Visiting scholar Cuban Research Institute Florida International University, Miami Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora cultures of Afro-Cuban America, by Antonio López, New York, New York University Press, 2012, xi + 272…

  • TEDxHampshireCollege–Jay Smooth: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race TEDx Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts 2011-11-15 Jay Smooth is host of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in NY, and is an acclaimed commentator on politics and culture. In this talk, he discusses the sometimes…

  • Is It Time to Do Away With The ‘One-Drop’ Rule? Clutch 2013-07-10 Britni Danielle Los Angeles Conversations about race in America can lead to never-ending discussions, hurt feelings, and sometimes even breakthroughs. Blame it on our complicated past of slavery, racism, and legalized prejudice, but even approaching a frank discussion about race in this country…

  • Cuba is White, Black and Mixed Race Because it is Diverse Havana Times: open-minded writing from Cuba 2013-10-22 Dmitri Prieto Agrarian University of Havana HAVANA TIMES — Recently, on the eve of October 10, a Cuban national holiday commemorating the date (in 1868) in which Cuban landowner Carlos Manuel de Cespedes and his retinue of…

  • ‘Longing for Oneself’: Hybridism and Miscegenation in Colonial and Postcolonial Portugal Etnográfica Volume VI, Number 1 (2002) pages 181-200 Miguel Vale de Almeida, Professor of Anthropology Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa This essay acknowledges that hybridism, in a troubling reminiscence of the 19th century debate on race and the hybrids is…

  • Blow to multiple human species idea BBC News 2013-10-17 Melissa Hogenboom, Science Reporter The idea that there were several different human species walking the Earth two million years ago has been dealt a blow. Instead, scientists say early human fossils found in Africa and Eurasia may have been part of the same species. Writing in…