Category: Anthropology

  • Exhibition brings black Germans’ stories to light DW 2012-11-09 Helen Whittle An exhibit gives voice to the histories of Africans, African-Americans and Afro-Germans from the past 300 years of German history. It presents a differentiated perspective on the lives and histories of blacks in Germany. Asked what comes to mind when they think about Germany,…

  • Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship Journal of Black Studies Volume 43, Number 8 (November 2012) pages 847-871 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712461794 Niyi Afolabi, Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Between the radicalism of Black Brazilian movements of the 1980s, an aftermath of the negation and rejection of the myth of…

  • An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.

  • Is Elizabeth Warren an Indian? The Aporetic 2012-09-27 Mike O’Malley The ques­tion posed above is extremely hard to answer. She doesn’t “look like an indian.” But what do Indians look like? Just to recap: Elizabeth Warren is run­ning for the Sen­ate in Massachusetts. She’s been widely mocked for claiming herself as “native Ameri­can” at var­i­ous…

  • Race, Nation, And Cultural Identity In Brazil (AN200) IES Abroad Chicago, Illinois Program(s): Rio de Janeiro – Study Brazil Terms offered: Fall, Spring Enrique Larreta, Director of the Institute of Cultural Pluralism Candido Mendes University The main focus of the course is the construction of national identity in modern Brazil, exploring the different processes that…

  • The “Brown Tinge” Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand Volume CVI, Issue 46 1928-08-31 page 11 Source: Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa Future New Zealanders “Science and history will both some day demand an explanation of the brown tinge in the future New Zealander,” said Sir Apirana Ngata in…

  • Three Winton Triangle Presentations at Greensboro conference. Chowan Discovery Group 2012-10-15 Marvin T. Jones The Chowan Discovery presentations about the Winton Triangle, its Civil War history and Chowan Discovery historical markers attracted many enthusiastic attendees at the annual conference of the Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society (AAGHS) in Greensboro. Included in the audiences were history…

  • The Politics of Samba Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Volume 2, Number 2 (Summer/Fall 2001) Bruce Gilman Samba, which was created in its present form in the 1910s, yet whose roots reach back much farther and tie Brazil to the African continent, has played an integral part in Brazil’s conceptualization as a nation. Originally despised…

  • ‘Passing’ in colonial Colombia Havard University Gazette 2009-02-12 Corydon Ireland, Harvard News Office Racial categories today are self-evident — part of what social scientists might call “socially constructed discourse.” Contemporary people of one race are aware of what other races look like, as well as where they themselves belong in the racial scheme of things.…

  • “Representing” Anglo-Indians: A Genealogical Study University of Melbourne 1999 350 pages Glenn D’Cruz, Senior Lecturer School of Communication and Creative Arts Deakin University, Australia Thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of English with Cultural Studies The ‘mixed-race’ Anglo-Indian (Eurasian) community was born of the European…