Mixed Race Studies

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Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life

    Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life University of Arizona Press 1998 188 pages 5.0 x 8.0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2270-5 Luis Alberto Urrea Here’s a story about a family that comes from Tijuana and settles into the ‘hood, hoping for the American Dream. …I’m not saying it’s our story. I’m not saying it isn’t. It…

  • Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala

    Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala University of Arizona Press 2010 192 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2767-0 Brigittine M. French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged…

  • Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities

    Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 37, Issue 02 May 2005 pp 259-284 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05009004 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis Through a genealogical analysis of the terms mestizo and mestizaje, this article reveals that these voices are doubly hybrid.…

  • Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation

    Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation Routledge 2006-03-02 296 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-35124-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-35125-6 Trim Size: 234X156 Stephen Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Sociology Sheffield Hallam University Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this incisive new textbook examines the shifting meanings of ‘race’ and ethnicity and collates the essential concepts in one indispensable companion volume. From…

  • Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Third Edition)

    Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenge how we think about identity.

  • The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

    The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century W. W. Norton & Company September 2007 384 pages 5.5 × 8.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-33029-8 Martha Hodes, Professor of History New York University Finalist for the Lincoln Book Prize. Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary…

  • Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

    Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico Yale University Press 2004-04-10 252 pages 8 1/2 x 11 100 b/w +100 color illus. Paper ISBN: 9780300109719 Cloth ISBN: 9780300102413 Ilona Katzew, Associate Curator of Latin American Art Los Angeles County Museum of Art Selected for Honorable Mention for a 2003-2004 Book Award given by the…

  • Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity

    Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity University of North Carolina Press September 2009 208 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 2 figs., 4 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3177-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5975-9 Beatriz Góis Dantas, Professor Emerita of Anthropology Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil Translated by Stephen Berg Nagô…

  • The Idea Of Race

    The Idea Of Race Hackett Publishing Company 2000 256 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-87220-459-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-459-1 Paper ISBN: 0-87220-458-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-458-4 Edited by Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Tommy L. Lott, Professor of Philosophy San José State University A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this…

  • Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century

    Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century Cuban Studies Volume 36, 2005 pages 105-128 E-ISSN: 1548-2464 Print ISSN: 0361-4441 DOI: 10.1353/cub.2005.0033 Gema R. Guevara, Associate Professor, Languages & Literature and Associate Professor, Spanish Section University of Utah In Cuba, race, nation, and popular music were inextricably linked to the earliest formulations…