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  • A 30 Percent of Mixed Race Component in Argentina’s Population

    A 30 Percent of Mixed Race Component in Argentina’s Population Agentina Investiga: Divulgación y Noticas Universitarias Universidad Maimónides Facultad de Ciencias Médicas 2012-04-09 Adrián Giacchino Departamento de Prensa Universidad Maimónides The research of a team formed by anthropologists, biologists, biochemists and archeologists proves that the autochthonous contribution in Argentina’s population might be of a 30%.…

  • How Scuffletown Became Indian Country: Political Change and Transformations in Indian identity in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1865-1956

    How Scuffletown Became Indian Country: Political Change and Transformations in Indian identity in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1865-1956 University of Washington 2008 267 pages Publication Number: AAT 3328369 ISBN: 9780549817246 Anna Bailey A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy According to census reports, there were no…

  • Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Penn State University Press 2005-08-18 304 pages 6 x 9, 8 illustrations/5 maps Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-02693-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-271-02694-7 Elizabeth W. Kiddy, Associate Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania Blacks of the Rosary tells the…

  • Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay

    Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay University of North Carolina Press October 2010 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 14 illus., 9 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3417-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-7158-4 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh 2011 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American…

  • Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue

    Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue University of Georgia Press March 2001 344 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3029-7 Stewart R. King, Associate Professor of History Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black. The French…

  • Beyoncé, beauty and the all mighty dollar

    Beyoncé, beauty and the all mighty dollar Insight News Minneapolis, Minnesota 2012-03-09 Irma McClaurin, Ph.D., Culture and Education Editor Just for the record, we are not in, nor has there ever been, a post-racial moment in America.  And so, we must dive deep into historical memory of this country to understand why all the fuss…

  • The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil

    “The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality” explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period.

  • Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego

    Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Rutgers University Press June 2012 256 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780813552835, ISBN: 0813552834 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780813552842, ISBN: 0813552842 Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Associate Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical…

  • Race (Part 1)

    Race (Part 1) The Chronicle of Higher Education Blog: Brainstorm—Ideas and culture. 2012-04-09 David Barash, Professor of Psychology University of Washington, Seattle Here’s a delicate subject, especially given the nationwide anguish over what appears to have been the cold-blooded, racially lubricated if not racially motivated murder of Trayvon Martin: race itself. More specifically and more…

  • American Indian Identity and Blood Quantum in the 21st Century: A Critical Review

    American Indian Identity and Blood Quantum in the 21st Century: A Critical Review Journal of Anthropology Volume 2011 (2011) Article ID 549521 9 pages DOI: 10.1155/2011/549521 Ryan W. Schmidt Department of Anthropology University of Montana Identity in American Indian communities has continually been a subject of contentious debate among legal scholars, federal policy-makers, anthropologists, historians,…