Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Performing Mulata-ness: The Politics of Cultural Authenticity and Sexuality among Carioca Samba Dancers Latin American Perspectives Volume 39, Number 2 (March 2012) pages 113-133 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X11430049 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada In Rio de Janeiro, mulatas—brown-skinned women of mixed racial descent who dance the samba in Carnival parades…

  • “Making the Chinese Mexican” is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Number 8, August 2012 pages 1466-1483 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.607503 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeronimo O. Muniz, Assistant Professor of Sociology Federal University of Minas Gerais Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor…

  • Schooling, Blackness and national identity in Esmeraldas, Ecuador Race Ethnicity and Education Volume 10, Issue 1, (March 2007) pages 47-70 DOI: 10.1080/13613320601100377 Ethan Allen Johnson, Assistant Professor of Black Studies Portland State University, Portland, Oregon In Esmeraldas, Ecuador, students of African descent make sense of racial identity and discrimination in multiple and contradictory ways as…

  • Student and teacher negotiations of racial identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian region International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Volume 22, Issue 5 (September-October 2009) pages 563-584 DOI: 10.1080/09518390902915439 Ethan Allen Johnson, Assistant Professor of Black Studies Portland State University, Portland, Oregon In this article, using data collected primarily through interviews and observations the researcher explores…

  • The book covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the sixteenth century to the present day, integrating contributions from history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, literary, and cultural studies. It offers a radical updating of both empirical data and methodologies, and aims to contribute to current debates on racism and ethnic relations…

  • The First American Freedom Fighter William Loren Katz 2012-02-02 William Loren Katz This February 2nd stands as the 500th anniversary of the death of Hatuey, an Indigenous American fighter for independence from colonialism not mentioned in the same breath as Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. However, Hatuey deserves recognition as their earliest ideological…

  • Writing Africans Out of the Racial Hierarchy: Anti-African Sentiment in Post-Revolutionary Mexico Cincinnati Romance Review Volume 30 (2011): Afro-Hispanic Subjectivities pages 172-183 Galadriel Mehera Gerardo, Assistant Professor of Latin American History Youngstown State University Over the past two decades scholars have examined Mexican racial ideology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They have…

  • José Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race Rutgers University Press 2011-05-07 142 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5063-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5064 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-5104-3 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Mexican educator and thinker José Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.E.B. Du Bois is to African Americans—a…

  • American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies The William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, Volume 19, Number 2 (April, 1962) pages 183-200 Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) The word mulatto is not frequently used in the United States. Americans generally reserve it for biological contexts, because for social purposes a mulatto…