Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Articulating Space: The Free-Colored Military Establishment in Colonial Mexico from the Conquest to Independence Callaloo Volume 27, Number 1 (Winter 2004) pages 150-171 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2004.0052 Ben Vinson, III, Vice Dean for Centers, Interdepartmental Programs, and Graduate Programs Johns Hopkins University Introduction: Questioning the Question of Non-White Military Service in Colonial Mexico At the close of…

  • Afro-Mexican History: Trends and Directions in Scholarship History Compass Volume 3, Issue 1 (January 2005) 14 pages DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2005.00156.x Ben Vinson, III, Vice Dean for Centers, Interdepartmental Programs, and Graduate Programs Johns Hopkins University This article surveys the development of a relatively new and vibrant subfield in Latin American History, mapping out the major stages…

  • Race and national ideology in Mexico: An ethnographic study of racism, color, mestizaje and blackness in Veracruz Univerity of California, Los Angeles 2007 191 pages Publication Number: AAT 3280987 ISBN: 9780549234821 Christina A. Sue, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Colorado, Boulder A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor…

  • Rumblings of The Earth: Wifredo Lam, His Work and Words Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1996 23 minutes Denise Byrd Awards San Antonio CINEFEST, 1996 Latin American Studies Association, 1995 The Afro-Cuban artist Wifredo Lam played a leading role in bringing the art of the non-white world to the attention of the…

  • Jarocho’s Soul: Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance University Press of America (an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) February 2004 182 pages Size: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7618-2775-7 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Brown-skinned men and women move across Mexico’s national…

  • Population structure and admixture in Cerro Largo, Uruguay, based on blood markers and mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms American Journal of Human Biology Volume 18, Issue 4 (July/August 2006) pages 513–524 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20520 Mónica Sans Departamento de Antropología Biológica, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Universidad de la República D. Andrew Merriwether Department of Anthropology…

  • Racial Classification Regarding Semen Donor Selection in Brazil Developing World Bioethics Volume 7, Issue 2 (August 2007) pages 104–111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2007.00192.x Rosely Gomes Costa, Pós-doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (Espanha) Brazil has not yet approved legislation on assisted reproduction. For this reason, clinics, hospitals…

  • Inventing the Creole Citizen: Race, Sexuality and the Colonial Order in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue Stony Brook University December 2008 335 pages Yvonne Eileen Fabella A Dissertation Presented The Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History Inventing the Creole Citizen examines the battle over racial hierarchy…

  • Inscribing African descendant identity in nineteenth century Cuba: The transculturated literature of Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes Michigan State University 2010 260 pages Publication Number: AAT 3435282 ISBN: 9781124337340 Matthew Joseph Pettway This dissertation explores how Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdés (also known as Plácido) appropriated Hispanic…

  • Interethnic diversity of NAT2 polymorphisms in Brazilian admixed populations BMC Genetics Volume 11, Number 1 (2010-10-05) pages 87-93 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-11-87 Jhimmy Talbot Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e Epidemiologia Molecular Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Luiz Alexandre V. Magno Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e Epidemiologia Molecular Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Cinthia VN Santana Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e…