Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • AMST 349: Race Across the Americas Emory University Seminar exploring the social construction of race comparatively and transnationally, especially the status of the descendants of enslaved Africans and mixed-race individuals in the Caribbean and Latin America.

  • Perspective on Mixed-Blood Natives: The Silence of Indian Country Native News Network Native Condition: Analysis and Opinion 2011-09-22 Mike Raccoon Eyes Eastern Band of the Cherokee Quallah, North Carolina SAN FRANCISCO—Cherokee culture was steeped deeply into the great Meso-American pyramid temple cities as early as 800 AD. When the Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans and Aztecs were…

  • 44. Afro-Latin America Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Spring 2010 (Offered as History 56 [LA] and Black Studies 44 [D, CLA].) This course explores the historical experiences of Afro-Latin populations since Independence within and outside the nation-state. The course asks how and why one might study those whose governments define them not as peoples of African…

  • LLS-4910-850: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America University of Nebraska, Ohama Fall 2011 Olga Celle, Visiting Professor of Sociology This course is a semester long discussion on Mestizaje or racial/ethnic mixing in Latin America. The premise informing the discussion is that race and ethnicity are social constructions—There are no actual races or ethnicities in the…

  • LATC-GA 2145 – Semester in Latin America: Brazilian Racial Democracy New York University Spring 2012 Sarah Sarzynski, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Racial democracy, or the myth of racial democracy, has been a dominant national narrative in Brazil throughout the twentieth century. Gilberto Freyre’s The Masters and the Slaves (1933) is…

  • Fifty years after Frantz Fanon: beyond diversity Advances in Psychiatric Treatment Volume 18, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 25-31 DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.110.008847 Adedapo Sikuade Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), a West Indian of mixed race, was a French colonial psychiatrist trained in Lyon, France, who worked mainly in colonial North Africa between 1953 and 1957. He was one…

  • Comparison between two race/skin color classifications in relation to health-related outcomes in Brazil International Journal for Equity in Health Volume 10, Number 1, (2011-08-25) pages 35-42 DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-10-35 Claudia Travassos Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (ICICT/FIOCRUZ), Avenida Brasil Josué Laguardia Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde…

  • Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks,…

  • 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…

  • Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America University of Southern California August 2009 311 pages Ruth Blandón Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) In my historical examination of the literary…