Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Migration from the West Indies to Britain, 1750-1820 The University of Michigan 2010 481 pages Daniel Alan Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History) in The University of Michigan 2010 This dissertation shows…

  • In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje—which proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elements—he examines a selection of texts that represent the entire…

  • Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991 Duke University Press 2000 424 pages 21 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 1 table Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2385-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2420-1 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected…

  • “Girl, You Are Not Morena. We Are Negras!”: Questioning the Concept of “Race” in Southern Bahia, Brazil Ethos Volume 35, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 383-409 DOI: 10.1525/eth.2007.35.3.383 Michael D. Baran, Preceptor in Expository Writing Harvard University In 2003, teachers at the municipal high school in Belmonte, Brazil, began presenting students with a radically different…

  • Redeeming the “Character of the Creoles”: Whiteness, Gender and Creolization in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 23, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 40–72 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2009.01359.x Yvonne Fabella, Lecturer of History University of Pennsylvania This article examines the political significance of white creolization in pre-revolutionary French Saint Domingue. Eighteenth-century Europeans tended to view…

  • Scholars have long heralded mestizaje, or race mixing, as the essence of the Cuban nation. “Revolutionizing Romance” is an account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba as it is experienced in interracial relationships. This ethnography tracks young couples as they move in a world fraught with shifting connections of class, race, and culture…

  • We Are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing Ethnic Identity Temple University Press January 2000 304 pages 7×10 5 tables 5 figures Paper EAN: 978-1-56639-723-0; ISBN: 1-56639-723-5 edited by Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara and W. Jeffrey Burroughs, Dean of Math and Sciences and Professor of Psychology Brigham Young…

  • Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature University of Missouri Press 2005 168 pages 6 x 9 index, bibliography ISBN 978-0-8262-1578-9 Antonio D. Tillis, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Dartmouth University Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature is an examination of the fictional work of…

  • Dangerous crossroads: Mestizaje in the U.S. Latino/a imaginary Rice University December 2007 197 pages Publication ID: 3309864 John L. Escobedo, Assistant Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree Doctor of Philosophy My dissertation interrogates mestizaje and nationalism to rethink academic tendencies that construct…

  • Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance University of Michigan Press 2006 256 pages 6 x 9. 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-09955-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-06955-2 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2008 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Co-winner of the 2007 Modern…