Mixed Race Studies

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  • Book Review/Compte rendu: Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil

    Book Review/Compte rendu: Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil Canadian Journal of Sociology Volume 35, Number 1 (2010) pages 189-191 Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Toronto Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, 304 pp.…

  • Racial Discrimination and Miscegenation: The Experience in Brazil

    In 1888, Brazil, with a mostly black and mixed race or mulatto population, was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery. During more than 300 years of slavery in the Americas, it was the largest importer of African slaves, bringing in seven times as many African slaves to the country, compared to…

  • Black Beauty: Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics

    Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women’s search for white beauty as a consequence of racialization. Without denying either the continuation of such aesthetics or their enduring power, this book uncovers the cracks in this hegemonic Black beauty.

  • Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil

    Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 83-97 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082954 Alexander Edmonds, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Sociology University of Amsterdam In Brazil racial mixture, mestiçagem has been a dominant theme in the political and cultural re-imagination of the nation in the…

  • Multiracial versus Collective Black Categories: Examining Census Classification Debates in Brazil

    Multiracial versus Collective Black Categories: Examining Census Classification Debates in Brazil Ethnicities Volume 6, Number 1 (2006) pages 74-101 DOI: 10.1177/1468796806061080 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Current census debates in Brazil surrounding Brazilian race categories center on two contrasting proposals: the…

  • The Myth of Latin American Multiracialism

    Latin American critics have begun to argue that multiracialism, like racial democracy, functions as an ideology that masks enduring racial injustice and thus blocks substantial political, social, and economic reform.

  • The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries

    The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries Palgrave Macmillan January 2005 176 pages Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 1-4039-6708-3 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-6563-3 Edited by: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature University of California, San Diego The Masters and the Slaves theorizes the interface of plantation relations…

  • White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity

    White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity Palgrave Macmillan December 2007 208 pages Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-7595-7 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature University of California, San Diego White Negritude analyzes the discourse of mestiçagem (mestizaje, métissage, or “mixing”) in Brazil. Focused on Gilberto Freyre‘s sociology of plantation…

  • Uma Mulata, Sim!: Araci Cortes, ‘the mulatta’ of the Teatro de Revista

    Uma Mulata, Sim!: Araci Cortes, ‘the mulatta’ of the Teatro de Revista Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 16, Issue 1 (March 2006) pages 7-26 DOI: 10.1080/07407700500514996 Judith Michelle Williams, Professor of African and African-American Studies University of Kansas Araci Cortes, a mulata assumida, rose to be one of the most successful…

  • Indians and Mestizos: Identity and Urban Popular Culture in Andean Peru

    Indians and Mestizos: Identity and Urban Popular Culture in Andean Peru Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 26, Issue 2 (June 2000) pages 239 – 253 DOI: 10.1080/03057070050010093 Fiona Wilson The article begins with a discussion of the chronology of conquest and liberation in Peru and reflects on the changing meanings given to the racial…