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  • Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz

    Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz The New York Review of Books 2010-08-17 Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History Harvard University On a recent trip to Brazil, I struck up a conversation with Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, one of Brazil’s finest historians and anthropologists. The talk turned to the two subjects she has…

  • The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930

    The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930 Hill and Wang (an imprint of MacMillan) September 1999 224 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8090-8789-1, ISBN10: 0-8090-8789-8 Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo, Brazil Translated by Leland Guyer, Professor of Hispanic Studies Macalester…

  • The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference

    What do Americans think “race” means? What determines one’s race—appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks.

  • Manufacturing citizenship: Metapragmatic framings of language competencies in media images of mixed race men in South Korea

    Manufacturing citizenship: Metapragmatic framings of language competencies in media images of mixed race men in South Korea Discourse & Society Volume 22, Number 4 (July 2011) pagesw 440-457 DOI: 10.1177/0957926510395834 Adrienne Lo, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jenna Kim Department of Educational Psychology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This…

  • The Jackson Whites

    REPORTER AT LARGE about the Jackson Whites; history and origin of a primitive race living in the Ramapo Mountains. They are a mixture of three races, the white, the Negro, & the American Indians.

  • Oreo, Topdeck and Eminem: Hybrid identities and global media flows

    Oreo, Topdeck and Eminem: Hybrid identities and global media flows International Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 14, Nubmer 2 (March 2011) pages 153-172 DOI: 10.1177/1367877910387971 Jane Stadler, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies University of Queensland, Australia The slang terms Oreo (someone who looks black but acts white) and Topdeck (someone who looks white…

  • Negotiating Honor: Women and Slavery in Caracas, 1750-1854

    Negotiating Honor: Women and Slavery in Caracas, 1750-1854 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque May 2011 214 pages Sue E. Taylor A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History This study examines three interrelated groups—female slaves, female slave owners, and free women of African heritage—living in the…

  • Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

    Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Cambridge University Press (available in the United States at University of Michigan Press here.) August 1974 224 pages 216 x 140 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521098465 Verena Martinez-Alier (a.k.a. Verena Stolcke), Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona An analysis of marriage patterns in nineteenth-century Cuba, a society…

  • The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States

    The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States Praeger Publishers May 2013 195 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38569-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-38570-4 Eric J. Bailey, Professor of Anthropology and Public Health East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina This unique and important book investigates what…

  • Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture

    Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2011-06-14 145 pages Maritza Quiñones-Rivera A Dissertation Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In my dissertation I discuss how blackness, femaleness…