Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Studies in Race Crossing: IV. Crosses of Chinese, Amerindians and Negroes, and their Bearing on Racial Relationships Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie Volume 47, Number 3 (March 1956) pages 233-315 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University With 36 figures on plates 24—32 and 7 figures and 41 tables in the text This paper…

  • Two Minds, One Heart SAS Fronties: Research and Scholarship in the School of Arts & Sciences University of Pennsylvania February 2011 Blake Cole Undergraduate Kaneesha Parsard delves into the storied history of indentured Indian labor in the Caribbean. “Growing up I never thought much about it, except for the fact that in addition to curry…

  • Making Güeras: Selling white identities on late-night Mexican television Gender, Place and Culture Volume 12, Number 1 (March 2005) pages 71–93 DOI: 10.1080/09663690500082984 Jamie Winders, Associate Professor of Geography Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York John Paul Jones III, Professor of Geography and Development University of Arizona, Tucson Michael James Higgins (1946-2011), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology…

  • Legislation eradicates Dominican “Indians” Dominican Today 2011-11-11 Santo Domingo.—Mulatto, black and white will be the only colors among Dominicans and will be stated thus in the citizens ID cards (cedula), effectively eradicating the nation’s “Indians.” The bill “Dominican Republic Electoral Law Reform” states that in the master file of cedulas the color of Dominicans will…

  • Lecture Series. Multiculturalism and Miscegenation in the Construction of Latin America’s Cultural Identity   Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 101 International Studies Building 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign, Illinois 2012-02-23, 12:00 CST (Local Time) Eduardo Coutihno, Distinguished Lemann Visiting Professor of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign…

  • This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.

  • Gene Flow from White into Negro Populations in Brazil American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 9, Number 4 (December 1957) pages 299–309 P. H. Saldanha Department of General Biology University of Sao Paulo, Brazil GLASS AND Li (1953) have introduced a statistical model that allows calculations to be made, not only of the intermixture between…

  • Mulatto Machiavelli, Jean Pierre Boyer, and The Haiti of His Day John Edward Baur The Journal of Negro History Volume 32, Number 3 (July, 1947) pages 307-353 Toussaint Louverture opened the gate of Haitian liberty, but Jean Pierre Boyer kept it open. Toussaint, ” First of the Blacks,” may be called the Washington of Haiti, but…

  • The Brazilian system of racial classification Ethnic and Racial Studies Published Online: 2011-12-05 6 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.632022 Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Professor of Sociology Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Michael Banton’s text belongs to the long tradition of European social sciences which rejects the conceptual use of the lerm ‘race’ in sociological analyses. His work…

  • President Alexandre Pétion: Founder of Agrarian Democracy in Haiti and Pioneer of Pan-Americanism Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 2, Number 3 (Third Quarter, 1941) pages 205-213 Dantès Bellegarde (1877-1966) [Biography in French] The history of Haiti is dominated by four great men who fought and worked for its independence: Toussaint Louverture, Dessalines, Christophe and Pétion. Toussaint is the…