Mixed Race Studies

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  • Culture: The face in the mirror is mestizo

    Culture: The face in the mirror is mestizo San Antonio Current San Antonia, Texas 2006-02-22 Elaine Wolff, Current Editor Plaza de Armas A two-day roundtable takes a big eraser to identity lines “I’m looking for the mestizo eye, the mestizo subjunctive, the mestizo soul,” says author John Phillip Santos as we wander through Retratos: 2,000…

  • Colloquium – Mónica Moreno Figueroa on “Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico”

    Colloquium – Mónica Moreno Figueroa on “Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico” Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center New York University 53 Washington Square South New York, New York Monday, 2011-09-12, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) Mónica Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University Discussant: Frances Negrón-Muntaner Hosted by the Center…

  • Colour and Race in Brazil: from whitening to the search for Afrodescent

    Colour and Race in Brazil: from whitening to the search for Afrodescent Paper presented at XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology Gothenburg, Sweden July 2010 21 pages Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo Two paradigmatic cases of the building process of post-slavery societies in the Americas were, without a doubt,…

  • Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945

    Providing a unique historical perspective on how racial attitudes move from elite discourse into people’s lives, “Diploma of Whiteness” shows how public schools promoted the idea that whites were inherently fit and those of African or mixed ancestry were necessarily in need of remedial attention.

  • Tent of Miracles: Myth of racial democracy

    Tent of Miracles: Myth of racial democracy Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media Number 21 (November 1979) pages 20-22 Joan R. Dassin Tent of Miracles (Tenda dos Milagres), says its director Nelson Pereira dos Santos, is a clear direct film that confronts a human question—that of racial discrimination—with great frankness and humor. Completed in…

  • Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation

    Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation Intstitute for Research on Women IRW Distinguished Lecture Series 2011-12: (De)Generations: Reimagining Communities Rutgers University Thursday, 2012-04-12 (16:00 EDT reception; 16:30 EDT lecture) César Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies Northwestern University Focusing on the cases of Brazil and the U.S., this presentation proposes to articulate the role played by gender representations…

  • Blood Simple: The politics of miscegenation

    The “Negro problem,” wrote Norman Podhoretz in 1963, would not be solved unless color itself disappeared: “and that means not integration, it means assimilation, it means—let the brutal word come out—miscegenation.”

  • Though Many Have White Skin, their Veins Flow of Black Blood: Afro-Argentine Culture and History during the Twentieth Century in Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Though Many Have White Skin, their Veins Flow of Black Blood: Afro-Argentine Culture and History during the Twentieth Century in Buenos Aires, Argentina McNair Scholars Journal Volume 7, Issue 1 (2003) Article 8 11 pages Erika D. Edwards, Grand Valley State University Although the Afro-Argentine population continued to decline during the twentieth century, the people…

  • Blacks, the white elite, and the politics of nation building: Inter and intraracial relationships in “Cecilia Valdes” and “O Mulato”

    Blacks, the white elite, and the politics of nation building: Inter and intraracial relationships in “Cecilia Valdes” and “O Mulato” Tulane University May 2006 274 pages Publication Number: AAT 3275113 ISBN: 9780549253327 Geoffrey Scott Mitchell A Dissertation Submitted on the Twenty-Sixth day of May 2006 to the Department of Spanish and Portugues in Partial Fulfillment…

  • Studied in race crossing VI. The Indian remnants in Eastern Cuba

    Studied in race crossing VI. The Indian remnants in Eastern Cuba Genetica Volume 27, Number 1 (1954) pages 65-96 DOI: 10.1007/BF01664155 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University A preliminary account was given at the 30th International Americanist Congress, Cambridge, England, August, 1952. Received for publication July 27, 1953 This paper is in one…