Mixed Race Studies

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  • The right colour

    The right colour Index on Censorship Volume 28, Issue 1, 1999 Special Issue: The Last Empire pages 110-114 DOI: 10.1080/03064229908536514 Daniela Cestarollo Five hundred years after the arrival of the Portuguese, Brazilians are only Just beginning to address the legacy of slavery Brazil is at last revealing its other face. After 500 years of seeking…

  • Brazil’s unfinished battle for racial democracy

    Brazil’s unfinished battle for racial democracy The Economist 2000-04-20 JOSILENE SALES’S career is typical of Brazil’s emerging middle class. She spent seven years working in a petrochemical plant, while studying for a degree at night classes. Having moved to a better paid job in marketing, she saved enough to start her own telemarketing firm in…

  • ‘The White Wife Problem’: Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa

    ‘The White Wife Problem’: Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa Gender & History Volume 21, Issue 3 (November 2009) pages 628–646 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01567.x Carina E. Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Based on archival research in Ghana and Britain, this article…

  • The Cosmic Race in Texas: Racial Fusion, White Supremacy, and Civil Rights Politics

    The Cosmic Race in Texas: Racial Fusion, White Supremacy, and Civil Rights Politics The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 2 (September 2011) pages 404-419 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar338 Benjamin H. Johnson, Associate Professor of Global Studies and History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee In the early twentieth century, a number of Latin American intellectuals embraced racial fusion…

  • Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries

    Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries Chapter in: Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment (2009) Springer Part I pages 55-68 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9283-1_4 Décio de Alencar Guzmán The author analyses the process of mixing (mestiçagem) in the Rio Negro region during the…

  • Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview (Fourth Edition)

    Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview (Fourth Edition) Westview Press July 2011 400 pages Trade paperback ISBN: 9780813345543 Audrey Smedley, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African American Studies Virginia Commonwealth University Brian D. Smedley, Vice President and Director Health Policy Institute Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies In a sweeping…

  • Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel

    Adlai Murdoch offers a detailed rereading of five major contemporary French Caribbean writers–Glissant, Condé, Maximin, Dracius-Pinalie, and Chamoiseau. Emphasizing the role of narrative in fashioning the cultural and political doubleness of Caribbean Creole identity, Murdoch shows how these authors actively rewrite their own colonially driven history.

  • Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California

    Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California University of Oklahoma Press 2010 256 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″, Illustrations: 7 B&W Illus. Hardcover ISBN: 9780806140902 Paperback ISBN: 9780806142371 Carlos Manuel Salomon, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies California State University, East Bay The first biography of a politically savvy Californio who straddled three eras Two-time governor…

  • Beyond poverty: the Negro and the Mulatto in Brazil

    Beyond poverty: the Negro and the Mulatto in Brazil Journal de la Société des Américanistes Volume 58 (1969) pages 121-137 DOI: 10.3406/jsa.1969.2100 Florestan Fernandes This paper was first presented, in a condensed version, at the seminars on “Minorities in Latin America and the United States”, (The College of the Finger Lakes, Corning, New York, December…

  • Mestizaje in Ibero-America

    One of the most remarkable results of the arrival of Europeans in the New World may often be taken for granted: the emergence of the mestizo component in Latin American societies. The racial mixing that occurred in the Hispanic New World is the subject of this important study, which draws on a wide variety of…