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  • The Racial Distribution of Nephritis and Hypertension in Panama

    The Racial Distribution of Nephritis and Hypertension in Panama The American Journal of Pathology Volume 21, Number 6 (November 1945) pages 1031-1046 Carl E. Taylor In Panama a large scale natural experiment on the pathogenesis of human hypertension awaits scientific interpretation. The studies of Kean and of Marvin and Smith have demonstrated the presence of fairly…

  • Religion and Racial Identity in the Movimento Negro of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil

    Religion and Racial Identity in the Movimento Negro of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil Iliff School of Theology and The University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) June 1995 302 pages Alan Doyle Myatt A Dissertation Presented to the Faculties of The Iliff School of Theology and The University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) In Partial Fulfillment…

  • Black Orpheus and the Merging of two Brazilian Nations

    Black Orpheus and the Merging of two Brazilian Nations European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 71, October 2001 pages 107-115 Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos, Associate Professor of Sociology State University of Rio de Janeiro The second cinematic remake of the play ‘Orfeu da Conceição’ has sparked a new debate among filmmakers and…

  • The “Americanization” of Racial Identity in Brazil: Recent Experiments with Affirmative Action in a “Racial Democracy”

    The “Americanization” of Racial Identity in Brazil: Recent Experiments with Affirmative Action in a “Racial Democracy” Journal of International Policy Solutions Volume 5 (Spring 2006) pages 5-25 Ana Pagano In 2001, the Brazilian Ministry of Agrarian Development surprised the international community by implementing an affirmative action program. The program, which was the first of its…

  • Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas

    Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas Michigan State University Press April 2012 344 pages 6 x 9, notes, references ISBN: 978-1-61186-040-5 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics University of South Florida Kimberly Eison Simmons, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies; Director of the Latin American Studies…

  • Invisible citizens?

    Invisible citizens? IDB America: Magazine of Inter-American Development Bank August 2001 Charo Quesada Censuses in many Latin American countries omit questions about race, rendering minority groups statistically invisible If we relied entirely on censuses to understand what the people of Latin America and the Caribbean look like, the picture that would emerge would be a…

  • Room for Debate: Brazil’s Racial Identity Challenge

    Room for Debate: Brazil’s Racial Identity Challenge The New York Times 2012-03-30 Jerry Dávila, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History University of Illinois Peter Fry, Anthropolgist Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University Yvonne Maggie,…

  • “¿Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata?”: Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film Mulata (1954)

    “¿Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata?”: Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film Mulata (1954) Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 18, Issue 3, November 2008 Special Issue: Sensualidades: Sounds and Movement in Latina/o Culture pages 215-233 DOI: 10.1080/07407700802495951 Melissa Blanco Borelli, Lecturer of Dance Studies University of Surrey This essay…

  • Vogue Italia and Hoop Earrings

    Vogue Italia and Hoop Earrings Havana Barbie’s thought on the arts 2011-08-23 Melissa Blanco Borelli, Lecturer of Dance Studies University of Surrey I have always loved to wear hoop earrings. In fact, they are my earrings of choice. Big and silver, that’s how I like them. Imagine my surprise and shock when I saw earrings…

  • Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not Quite the United States… and Racial Politics in Brazil?

    Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not Quite the United States… and Racial Politics in Brazil? Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 4, Issue 2, 1998 pages 201-234 DOI: 10.1080/13504639851807 Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Professor in Ethics Queen Mary University of London Studies of racial subordination in Brazil usually stress…