Category: Anthropology

  • Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil Cambridge University Press December 1997 412 pages 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521585903 Hardback ISBN: 9780521584555 Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO New York Public Library In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthony W. Marx provocatively links the construction…

  • In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots The Washington Post 2005-05-05 Monte Reel BUENOS AIRES — Their disappearance is one of Argentina’s most enduring mysteries. In 1810, black residents accounted for about 30 percent of the population of Buenos Aires. By 1887, however, their numbers had plummeted to 1.8 percent. So where did they…

  • The Cuban Remix: Rethinking Culture and Political Participation in Contemporary Cuba University of Michigan 2008 555 pages Tanya L. Saunders A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) This dissertation examines the post-1959 activism of Cuba’s socially critical artists and intellectuals, and the effects of the…

  • Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century by Circe Sturm (review) The American Indian Quarterly Volume 37, Numbers 1-2, Winter/Spring 2013 pages 269-272 DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2013.0006 Miguel A. Maymí Circe Sturm’s book Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century is an insightful view into the motivations of those…

  • Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia University of Hawai‘i Press March 2013 192 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3664-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8248-3736-5 L. Ayu Saraswati, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies University of Hawai‘i In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them…

  • Black in Latin America New York University Press July 2011 270 pages 50 illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780814732984 Paperback ISBN: 9780814738184 eBook ISBN: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous…

  • Louisiana’s “Creoles of Color”: Ethnicity, Marginality, and Identity Social Science Quarterly Volume 73 Issue 3, September 1992 pages 615- James H. Dormon, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History and American Studies University of Southwestern Louisiana This article traces the ethnohistory of Creoles of color, beginning with an examination of the social-historical order out of which they…

  • Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival University of Illinois Press May 2013 216 pages 6 x 9 in. 16 black & white photographs, 3 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03751-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07901-6 Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University…

  • The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico University of California Press December 1980 408 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520042803 Colin M. MacLachlan, Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Jamie E. Rodríguez, Professor of History University of California, Irvine “The Forging of the Cosmic Race” challenges the widely held notion that…

  • I Found One Drop: Can I Be Black Now? The Root 2013-05-01 Jenée Desmond-Harris Race Manners: Time for a racial gut check. Has your African-American ancestor really changed anything? “I recently availed myself of my university’s online resources and did some genealogical digging about my white conservative family. It turns out that one of our…