Category: Anthropology

  • Creole Culture: Identity and Race in the Bayou Country Kreol Magazine October-December 2013, Issue 7 pages 42-45 Christophe Landry Louisiana is what many have come to refer to as the northern-most point of Latin America, where créolité, a Latin-based people, culture and consciousness, emerged early in the 1700s. From its earliest stages, the international melting…

  • Throughout the twentieth century, the post-revolutionary Mexican State had used mestizaje as a symbol of national unity and social integration. By the end of the millennium, however, Mexico had gone from a PRI-dominated, economically protectionist nation to a more democratic, economically globalizing one.

  • Not Just Color: Whiteness, nation, and status in Latin America Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 93, Number 3 (August 2013) pages 411-449 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2210858 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University René Flores Princeton University In this study we use statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys from the 2010 AmericasBarometer to examine how color, nationality, and…

  • Kinship and Identity: Mixed Bloods in Urban Indian Communities American Indian Culture and Research Journal ISSN 0161-6463 (Print) Volume 23, Number 2 (1999) Pages 73-89 Susan Applegate Krouse [Ziigwam Nibi Kwe (Spring Water Woman) Haslett] (1955-2010), Associate Professor of Anthropology Michigan State University INTRODUCTION American Indians have become an increasingly urban population in the twentieth…

  • This groundbreaking book is at once a general history and a celebration of Tejanas’ contributions to Texas over three centuries

  • Cuban Color Classification and Identity Negotiation: Old Terms in a New World University of Pittsburgh 2004 246 pages Shawn Alfonso Wells Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Pittsburgh in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This thesis analyzes how the Cuban Revolution’s transnational discourse on blackness…

  • The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje Michigan State University Press 2013-11-01 310 pages 6 in x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9781611860863 eBook ISBN: 9781609173753 Pancho McFarland, Associate Professor of Sociology Chicago State University The population of Mexican-origin peoples in the United States is a diverse one, as reflected by age,…

  • Skin pigmentation, biogeographical ancestry and admixture mapping Human Genetics Volume 112, Issue 4 (April 2003) pages 387-399 Mark D. Shriver, Professor of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Esteban J. Parra Department of Anthropology University of Toronto at Mississauga Sonia Dios Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Carolina Bonilla Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Heather Norton…

  • One of the Family: Métis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan by Brenda Macdougall (review) Canadian Ethnic Studies Volume 44, Number 3, 2012 pages 147-148 DOI: 10.1353/ces.2013.0012 Frits Pannekoek, President and Professor of History Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada Brenda Macdougall, One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan (Vancouver: University of British Columbia…

  • Book Review: Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism and Blackness in Mexico LSE Review of Books London School of Economics 2013-08-30 Zalfa Feghali, Editorial Assistant Journal of American Studies Land of the Cosmic Race is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and colour play in organizing the lives and…