Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Color, Race, and Genomic Ancestry in Brazil: Dialogues between Anthropology and Genetics Current Anthropology Volume 50, Number 6 (2009) pages 787-819 DOI: 10.1086/644532 Ricardo Ventura Santos, Professor of Biological Anthropology and Public Health Oswaldo Cruz Foundation also Associate professor of Anthropology National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Peter H. Fry, Professor Federal University of Rio…

  • The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism University of Minnesota Press 2008 272 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5005-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5004-0 Estelle Tarica, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture University of California, Berkeley The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica’s work shows how modern Mexican…

  • Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay Palgrave Macmillan October 2011 272 pages Includes: 10 pages of figures, 10 pages of tables 5.500 x 8.250 inches ISBN: 978-0-230-11061-8, ISBN10: 0-230-11061-4 Edited by Sahra Gibbon, Wellcome Trust Fellow Department of Social Anthropology University College London Ricardo Ventura Santos, Professor…

  • Brazil: Census “Reveals” Majority of Population is Black or Mixed Race Global Voices 2011-11-29 Written by: Paula Góes Translated by: Maisie Fitzpatrick [All links lead to Portuguese language pages except when otherwise noted.] For the first time in Brazilian history, the national census has shown that the majority of the population, 50.7% of a total…

  • Racial, Religious, and Civic Creole Identity in Colonial Spanish America The Journal of American History Volume 17, Issue 3 (Fall 2005) pages 420-437 DOI: 10.1093/alh/aji024 Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Patrocinio de la Virgen de Guadalupe sobre el Reino de Nueva España (“Auspices of Our Lady of Guadalupe…

  • “Transnational Crossroads” explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.

  • At the turn of the twentieth century, a wave of Chinese men made their way to the northern Mexican border state of Sonora to work and live. The ties—and families—these Mexicans and Chinese created during led to the formation of a new cultural identity: Chinese Mexican.

  • Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940 University of North Carolina Press November 2003 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 8 illus., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5563-8 Alejandra Bronfman, Professor of History University of British Columbia In the years following Cuba’s independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to…

  • Filipinos in Nueva España: Filipino-Mexican Relations, Mestizaje, and Identity in Colonial and Contemporary Mexico Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 389-416 Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University This essay examines how the…

  • Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 331-359 Jason Oliver Chang, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies University of Connecticut The eviction of Chinese cotton farmers from Mexicali, Baja California serves as a focal point to explore the racial boundaries of dominant…