Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Performative Aspects of Brazilian Music as a Means of Creating Identity in Rio de Janeiro Universität Wien October 2008 215 pages Adriana Ribeiro-Mayer In Rio de Janeiro’s multi-ethnic society with its colonial and slave-based past creating a common identity is a major problem. Standard Portuguese, as opposed to spoken “Brazilian”, is remote to many Brazilians.…

  • Brazil’s new racial reality: Insights for the U.S.? Race-Talk The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity 2011-07-19 Cheryl Staats, Research Assistant Brazil has been a long-standing place of interest for many scholars due to its fluid racial categorization that focuses on phenotype rather than hypodescent.  With the release of Brazil’s 2010 census…

  • Gender Differences in Ancestral Contribution and Admixture in Venezuelan Populations Human Biology Volume 83, Number 3 (June 2011) pages 345-361 E-ISSN: 1534-6617 Print ISSN: 0018-7143 D. Castro De Guerra Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas C. Figuera Perez Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas M. H. Izaguirre Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas E. Arroyo Barahona Universidad Central…

  • Negotiating Honor: Women and Slavery in Caracas, 1750-1854 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque May 2011 214 pages Sue E. Taylor A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History This study examines three interrelated groups—female slaves, female slave owners, and free women of African heritage—living in the…

  • Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Cambridge University Press (available in the United States at University of Michigan Press here.) August 1974 224 pages 216 x 140 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521098465 Verena Martinez-Alier (a.k.a. Verena Stolcke), Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona An analysis of marriage patterns in nineteenth-century Cuba, a society…

  • Gender, Mixed Race Relations and Dougla Identities in Indo-Caribbean Women’s Fiction 6th International Conference of Caribbean Women’s Writing: Comparative Critical Conversations Goldsmiths, University of London Centre for Caribbean Studies 2011-06-24 through 2011-06-25 Christine Vogt-William Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Once a pejorative term in Hindi meaning ‘bastard’, dougla is used nowadays to designate those…

  • Race and Making America in Brazil: How Brazilian Return Migrants Negotiate Race in the US and Brazil University of Michigan 2011 314 pages Tiffany Denise Joseph Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) in The University of Michigan This dissertation explores how US immigration influenced the…

  • White Skin, White Masks: The Creole Woman and the Narrative of Racial Passing in Martinique and Louisiana University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2006 83 pages Michael James Rulon A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master…

  • Who Belongs to Whom?: Codes, Property, and Ownership in Madame Charles Reybaud’s “Les Épaves” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 2011) pages 229-239 E-ISSN: 1536-0172 Print ISSN: 0146-7891 Molly Krueger Enz, Assistant Professor of French South Dakota State University French Romantic writer Madame Charles Reybaud explores the coupling of gender and…

  • Where Is the Carnivalesque in Rio’s Carnaval? Samba, Mulatas and Modernity Visual Anthropology Volume 21, Issue 2 (2008) pages 95-111 DOI: 10.1080/08949460701688775 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada This article chronicles the historical normalization of carnaval parades and samba performances in Rio de Janeiro, by looking at the progressive…