Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Escaping to Destinations South: The Underground Railroad, Cultural Identity, and Freedom Along the Southern Borderlands National Park Service Network to Freedom 2012-06-20 through 2012-06-24 St. Augustine, Florida The Network to Freedom has joined with local partners to present an annual UGRR [Underground Railroad] conference beginning in 2007. These conferences bring together a mix of grass…

  • The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil University of North Carolina Press February 1999 168 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-4766-4 Hermano Vianna Edited and translated by John Charles Chasteen, Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Samba is Brazil’s “national rhythm,” the foremost…

  • The African Presence in Brazil: Slavery, Resistance, Miscegenation and Strategic Popularization of Afro-Brazilian Music Culture Kalamazoo College 2004 69 pages Danielle Dubois Flax This thesis intends to investigate the history of slavery in Brazil, its effects on the demographic, psychological and political reality of Afro-Brazilians, and most essentially: how representations of Afro-Brazilian music and culture…

  • Obama’s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil Washington Post 2011-03-18 Juan Forero, Staff Writer RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil is a big gumbo of ethnicities, its people proud of their diversity and confident their country is among the most tolerant of nations. But this country—a leading center of black culture—has never had a black president.…

  • Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil Palgrave Macmillan August 2003 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-0-312-29374-1, ISBN10: 0-312-29374-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-312-29375-8, ISBN10: 0-312-29375-5 Livio Sansone, Vice Director of Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos Universidade Candido Mendes in Brazil Drawing on 15 years of research in Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Suriname,…

  • Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops Duke University Press 2007 360 pages 37 b&w photos, 9 tables Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4037-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4018-8 Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical…

  • Michelle Cliff and the Authority of Identity The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Volume 28, Number 1, Identities (Spring, 1995) pages 56-70 Sally O’Driscoll, Associate Professor of English Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut Michelle Cliff has gained critical acclaim as a novelist in the United States and England; her position as an expatriate Jamaican…

  • Intimacy and Inequality: Manumission and Miscegenation in Nineteenth-Century Bahia (1830-1888) University of Nottingham April 2010 428 pages Jane-Marie Collins Thesis submitted to the University of Nottingham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Hispanic and Latin American Studies This thesis proposes a new paradigm for understanding the historical roots of the myth of racial democracy…

  • An innovative interpretation of the development of Brazilian literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1983, “Three Sad Races” is a study of how Brazilian literature deals with the nation’s racial diversity themes and gives vent to the general disquietude concerning this.

  • The role of the media in influencing social perceptions of racial relations in Brazil Wayne State University 2006 126 pages Publication Number: AAT 3243076 ISBN: 9780542982705 Gildasio Mendes Dos Santos Based on the tenets of Social Identity Theory (SIT), Self-Categorization Theory (SDT), Cross-Group Relations (CGR) and Inter-Group Contact (IGC), this study examined how media programs…