Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Dominica in Brooklyn The New York Times 2011-01-13 Carol Vogel, Art Reporter The Brooklyn Museum has acquired an 18th-century painting by Agostino Brunias, a little-known London-based Italian artist. Around 1764 the British government sent Brunias to the West Indies to document one of that empire’s newest colonies, Dominica. Depicting two richly dressed mulatto women on…

  • Brooklyn Museum Acquires 18th Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Colonial Elite artdaily.org: The First Art Newspaper on the Net 2011-01-18 Agostino Brunias (Italian, ca. 1730-1796), Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca. 1764-1796, Oil on canvas, 2010.59, Gift of Mrs. Carll H. de Silver in memory of her…

  • Mapping the liminal identities of mulattas in African, African American, and Caribbean literatures Pennsylvania State University December 2006 285 pages AAT: 3343682 ISBN: 9780549992738 Khadidiatou Gueye Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2006 In twentieth-century African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, mixed-blood women are often misread…

  • Dougla, Half-doogla, Travesao, and the Limits of Hybridity Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 7, Issues 1 & 2 (Fall 2009) 30 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Jennifer Rahim, Senior Lecturer in English University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Discourses on Caribbean culture and identity have been, if anything, prolific and energetic in their manufacture and circulation…

  • “A Whole New Race”: Chinese Cubans and Hybrid Identities in Cristina García’s Monkey Hunting Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 7, Issues 1 & 2 (Fall 2009) 14 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Ann Marie Alfonso-Forero, Dissertation Editor Graduate School, University of Miami More so than its predecessors Dreaming in Cuban and The Agüero Sisters, Cristina García’s…

  • The Chinese in the Caribbean [Book Reveiw] Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) 8 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Kathryn Morris Andrew R. Wilson, Editor. The Chinese in the Caribbean. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2004, xxiii+230 pp. The Hakka are a migratory people. We move outwards on the tides of history. Most of…

  • What Racial Hybridity? Sexual Politics of Mixed-Race Identities in the Caribbean and the Performance of Blackness Lucayos The School of English Studies of The College of The Bahamas’ Journal of Caribbean and Postcolonial Criticism and Creative Work Volume 1 (2008) pages 90-105 Papers from the 26th West Indian Literature Conference, March 8-10, 2007 Angelique V.…

  • Congenital dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanel in mestizo-mulatto children Child’s Nervous System Volume 17, Number 6 (2001) pages 353-355 DOI: 10.1007/s003810000419 Sonia Fermín Section of Neurosurgery Hospital Infancy Dr. R. Reid C, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic R. Fernández-Guerra Section of Neurosurgery Hospital Infancy Dr. R. Reid C, Santo Domingo,  Dominican Republic O. López-Camacho Section…

  • Black Mexico: Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Race and Nation Brown University May 2009 268 pages Marisela Jiménez Ramos A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. On January 31, 2006, the Associated Press reported that while remodeling…

  • Chinos and Paisanos: Chinese Mexican Relations in the Borderlands Pacific Historical Review Volume 79, Number 1 (February 2010) Pages 50–85 DOI: 10.1525/phr.2010.79.1.50 Julian Lim Cornell University Using the testimonio of Manuel Lee Mancilla, a Chinese Mexican man born in Mexicali in 1921, this article explores the experiences of the Chinese in northern Mexico in the…