Category: Anthropology

  • Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, Volume 1: The Making of the Luso-Asian World: Intricacies of Engagement Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2011 323 pages Soft cover ISBN: 978-981-4345-25-5 See Volume 1 here. Edited by: Laura Jarnagin, Visiting Professorial Fellow Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore also Associate Professor Emerita in the Division…

  • Blood Flowed Here Before Water Did Trinidad Express 2012-09-14 Jan Westmaas The writer continues his series on Peru and South Africa after visits to these countries in July and August I’ve just read this morning in the daily press a story about Spanish energy company Repsol’s major oil and natural gas find in the Peruvian…

  • The Social World of Batavia: Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia (Second Edition) University of Wisconsin Press April 2009 (First Published in 1983) 312 pages 6 x 9   14 b/w illustrations Jean Gelman Taylor, Associate Professor of History University of New South Wales In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the…

  • Argentina: Land of the Vanishing Blacks Ebony Magazine October 1973 pages 74-85 Era Bell Thompson Once outnumbering whites five to one, blacks were absorbed and inundated by massive immigration “If you are looking for black people, why,” they asked helpfully, “did you come to Argentina? Why don’t you go to Brazil?” Well, I had been…

  • Afroargentines The Argentina Independent 2007-03-23 Laura Balfour As a descendant of two slaves, Maria Lamadrid has a hard time biting her tongue when airport officials think her Argentine passport is not real because ‘there are no blacks in Argentina’.   And that was in 2002.   The 25th of March marks the landmark 200th anniversary…

  • The reawakening of Afro-Argentine culture Global Post 2009-08-30 Anil Mundra Descendants of slaves are starting to assert their identity but it’s not easy in South America’s whitest country. BUENOS AIRES — “Liberty has no color” read the signs held outside a Buenos Aires city courthouse. “Arrested for having the wrong face,” and “Suspected of an…

  • Assimilating Hawai‘i: Racial Science in a Colonial “Laboratory,” 1919-1939 University of Minnesota July 2012 322 pages Christine Leah Manganaro A DISSERTATION IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY This dissertation demonstrates how American physical anthropologists and sociologists working in Hawai‘i framed the biological and cultural assimilation of mixed race…

  • Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies University of Georgia Press 2013-02-01 288 pages 5 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-4435-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4436-2 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4479-9 Claudia Milian, Associate Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies Duke University With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies…

  • The Fate of the Afro-Turks: Nothing Left But the Colour Qantara.de Bonn, Germany 2012-08-27 Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere (Translated from the German by Michael Lawton) The Afro-Turks, whose ancestors came to the Ottoman Empire as slaves in the nineteenth century, are still struggling for recognition. Now, though, their desire to assimilate into the wider society has become greater…

  • The Dougla in Trinidad’s Consciousness History in Action: Online Journal of The University of the West Indies (St. Augustine. Trinidad and Tobago) Dept. of History Volume 2, Number 1 (April 2011) 7 pages ISSN: 2221-7886 Feme Louanne Regis University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad is a complex multi-ethnic society where…