Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Jamette Carnival and Afro-Caribbean Influences on the Work of Jean Rhys Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2005) 22 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Cynthia Davis Most art critics would agree that since the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris, African aesthetics have profoundly influenced twentieth century sculpture and painting. Literary critics have…

  • Martin de Porres Wikipedia Martin de Porres (December 9, 1579 – November 3, 1639) was a lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people and all those seeking interracial harmony.   He…

  • Abeng Penguin Press 1984 176 pages 5.35 x 8.07in ISBN 9780452274839 Michelle Cliff Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt more than in…

  • Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of “blackness” and discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts—from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing, marriage, music, and personal identity.

  • Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a “racial…

  • PBS series explores black culture in Latin America 2011-04-18 Jennifer Kay Associated Press MIAMI—On a street in a seaside city in Brazil, four men describe themselves to Henry Louis Gates Jr. as black. Flabbergasted, the Harvard scholar insists they compare their skin tones with his. In a jumble, their forearms form a mocha spectrum. Oh,…

  • Brazil’s census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves The Guardian 2010-08-25 Tom Phillip Interviewers plan to reach 190m people, including the long-ignored Kalunga, by motorbike, plane, canoe and donkey When Jorge Moreira de Oliveira’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather arrived in Brazil in the 18th century he was counted off the slave-ship, branded and dispatched to…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson] American Anthropologist Volume 110, Issue 1 (March 2008) pp. 79–80 ISSN 0002-7294; online ISSN 1548-1433 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00013.x Amanda Walker Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? G. Reginald Daniel.…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Bailey] Contemporary Sociology Volume 36, Number 6 (November 2007) pages 535-536 DOI: 10.1177/009430610703600609 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?, by G. Reginald Daniel. University Park, PA: The…

  • Creolization of the Atlantic World: The Portuguese and the Kongolese Portuguese Studies Volume 27, Number 1 (2011-03-01) pages 56-69 Francisco Bethencourt, Professor of History King’s College, London In the 1930s, Gilberto Freyre’s praise of mixed-race people in Brazil challenged the idea of white supremacy, contributing to the building of a new Brazilian identity. In the…