Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Miscegenation, Racialization and Gender (Mestiçagem, Racialização e Gênero) Sociologias Number 21 (Porto Alegre Jan./June 2009) pages 94-120 DOI: 10.1590/S1517-45222009000100006 ISSN 1517-4522 Rosely Gomes Costa, Pós-doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (Espanha) This paper reflects on the paradox of a mestizo Brazil and the close relationship…

  • Ciphering Nations: Performing Identity in Brazil and the Caribbean   University of Minnesota June 2011 197 pages Naomi Pueo Wood, Assistant Professor of Spanish The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF…

  • Dominican Republic Country Profile BBC News 2011-12-06 Once ruled by Spain, the Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, a former French colony. OVERVIEW… …The Dominican Republic is inhabited mostly by people of mixed European and African origins. Western influence is seen in the colonial buildings of the capital, Santo Domingo, as well…

  • Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times University of New Mexico Press 2009 296 pages 6 x 9 in, 21 halftones, 4 maps paperback ISBN: 978-0-8263-4701-5 Edited by: Ben Vinson III, Professor of history and Director of the Center for Africana Studies Johns Hopkins University Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of…

  • Creating and Contesting Community: Indians and Afromestizos in the Late-Colonial Tierra Caliente of Guerrero, Mexico   Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2006 E-ISSN: 1532-5768 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2006.0030 Andrew B. Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota Late in the afternoon of January 13, 1783 the parish priest of…

  • Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America Duke University Press 2009 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4401-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4420-9 Edited by: Matthew D. O’Hara, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz Andrew Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with…

  • A Mestizo and Tropical Country: The Creation of the Official Image of Independent Brazil European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 80 (April 2006) Constructing Ethnic Labels pages 25-42 Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo, Brazil The objective of this article is to consider how Brazil, in the first…

  • ‘Pretos’ and ‘Pardos’ between the Cross and the Sword: Racial Categories in Seventeenth Century Brazil European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 80 (April 2006) Constructing Ethnic Labels pages 43-55 Hebe Mattos, Professor of History and Coordinator of the LABHOI/UFF Memory of Slavery Oral History Project University Federal Fluminense, Brazil This paper discusses…

  • Professor Alcira Dueñas: Illuminating the Andes: Indigenous and Mestizo Intellectuals in Colonial Peru ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? Ohio State University Autumn 2009 Michael J. Alarid A citizen of Colombia, Professor Alcira Dueñas is a historian who conducts research on the cultural and intellectual history of Amerindians and other subordinated groups of the Peruvian Andes during the…

  • Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, “Indians and Mestizos in the “Lettered City”” highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the “lettered city” as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites.