Mixed Race Studies

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  • Identity and Public Policy: Redefining the Concept of Racial Democracy in Brazil

    Identity and Public Policy: Redefining the Concept of Racial Democracy in Brazil Harvard Journal of African American Policy 2011 Edition Krystle Norman Krystle Norman is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, where she received her master’s degree in public policy. In 2008, she received her bachelor’s degree from the University of…

  • Race in Brazil: Out of Eden

    Race in Brazil: Out of Eden The Economist 2003-07-03 Brazil used to think it could be colour-blind. Alas, no longer JOANA, an actress and student, is white, or at least that is what her birth certificate says. She has a white father, a mixed-race mother and skin the colour of cappuccino. But she considers herself…

  • Is the high value placed on the beauty of mulatas in Brazil an example of Brazil’s racial democracy or, in fact, an instance of its profound racism?

    Is the high value placed on the beauty of mulatas in Brazil an example of Brazil’s racial democracy or, in fact, an instance of its profound racism? IDEATE The Undergraduate Journal of Sociology University of Essex Volume 6, Summer 2011 8 pages Bethan Rafferty SC386 Anthropology of Latin America: Race, Gender and Identity The role…

  • Blonde Beauties and Black Booties: Racial Hierarchies in Brazil

    Blonde Beauties and Black Booties: Racial Hierarchies in Brazil Ms. Magazine Blog 2010-06-11 Erica Williams, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Model scouts strategically target towns in Southern Brazil to “find the right genetic cocktail of German and Italian ancestry, perhaps with some Russian or other Slavic blood thrown in,” explains Alexei Barrionuevo…

  • The tan from Ipanema: Freyre, Morenidade, and the cult of the body in Rio De Janeiro

    The tan from Ipanema: Freyre, Morenidade, and the cult of the body in Rio De Janeiro Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies October 2009 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Art Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada She says she has brown skin, and a feverish body And inside the chest, love of Brazil…

  • Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America

    Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America Black in Latin America Public Broadcasting Service April 2011 Gates discusses his new project in this interview from the PBS site. First, could you talk a little bit about this project? I conceived of this as a trilogy of documentary series that…

  • Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought

    Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought Duke University Press 1974 334 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-1320-5 Thomas E. Skidmore, Emeritus Professor of History Brown University Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore’s intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in…

  • The multiple dimensions of racial mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: from whitening to Brazilian negritude

    The multiple dimensions of racial mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: from whitening to Brazilian negritude Ethnic and Racial Studies Available online: 2011-08-01 18 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.589524 Graziella Moraes D. Silva Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Elisa P. Reis, Professor of Political Sociology Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The notion that racial mixture…

  • Mixed Race Season

    Mixed Race Season BBC Press Office BBC Two Summer & Autumn 2011 Diverse, stimulating and rewarding television on BBC Two 2011-06-22 Mixed-race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn in a collection of revealing new programmes. With a mix of drama and documentaries, the season provides a window into the varied lives of mixed-race…

  • School Hygiene and Eugenics: The Role of Physical Education in Regeneration “The Brazilian Race”

    School Hygiene and Eugenics: The Role of Physical Education in Regeneration “The Brazilian Race” Revista HISTEDBR On-Line Number 35 (September 2009) pages 19-28 ISSN: 1676-2584 Karl M. Lorenz, Associate Professor, Director Teacher Certification Programs Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut From 1870 to 1930, physicians, writers, anthropologists and educators discussed the relationship between education and the…