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Category: Anthologies

  • The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States

    “The Afro-Latin@ Reader” focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil

    Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil Duke University Press 1999 232 pages 9 tables Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2272-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2252-8 Edited by Michael Hanchard, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a…

  • Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues

    Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues Routledge 2011-03-29 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88205-7 Edited by: Daniel Burdsey, Senior Lecturer of Sociology Chelsea School of Sport University of Brighton As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race, ethnicity and British football, this book brings together a range of academics, comprising both established…

  • Racial Classification and History

    Racial Classification and History Routledge 1997-02-01 376 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8153-2602-1 Edited by E. Nathaniel Gates (1955-2006) Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University Explores the concept of “race” The term “race,” which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning.…

  • International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing

    International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing develops theoretical perspectives and presents intellectually shaped empirical evidence that can deal with complexity and normalcy in order to move the debate onto more fruitful grounds. It is an important book for students and scholars of race and ethnicity.

  • African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise

    African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise Temple University Press February 1992 276 pages 5.5 x 8.25 Cloth ISBN: 0-87722-892-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-59213-104-4 Edited by David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota Essays that focus on the authors’ observations of race relations in Brazil from the first decade…

  • Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History

    “Genetics and the Unsettled Past” considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history.

  • Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times

    Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times University of New Mexico Press 2009 296 pages 6 x 9 in, 21 halftones, 4 maps paperback ISBN: 978-0-8263-4701-5 Edited by: Ben Vinson III, Professor of history and Director of the Center for Africana Studies Johns Hopkins University Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of…

  • Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America

    Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America Duke University Press 2009 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4401-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4420-9 Edited by: Matthew D. O’Hara, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz Andrew Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with…

  • Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay

    Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay Palgrave Macmillan October 2011 272 pages Includes: 10 pages of figures, 10 pages of tables 5.500 x 8.250 inches ISBN: 978-0-230-11061-8, ISBN10: 0-230-11061-4 Edited by Sahra Gibbon, Wellcome Trust Fellow Department of Social Anthropology University College London Ricardo Ventura Santos, Professor…