Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars.

  • Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution University of North Carolina Press April 2016 332 pages 6.125 x 9.25 24 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2672-7 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during…

  • Sacramento’s Mexican genealogists trace their roots to Aztec empire The Sacramento Bee Sacramento, California 2016-04-10 Stephen Magagnini Highlights Mexican Americans use Catholic Church records, other documents to map family roots Some trace family history to Aztecs, colonial Mexico Interest in Mexican family histories is growing as Latinos become biggest group in California Maria Cortez dug…

  • The black people ‘erased from history’ BBC News Magazine 2016-04-10 Arlene Gregorius, BBC Mexico More than a million people in Mexico are descended from African slaves and identify as “black”, “dark” or “Afro-Mexican” even if they don’t look black. But beyond the southern state of Oaxaca they are little-known and the community’s leaders are now…

  • How Soccer Helped Brazil Embrace Its Racial Diversity Zócalo Public Square KCRW Santa Monica, California 2016-04-06 Joshua Nadel, Associate Professor of History North Carolina Central University Brazil—as two recent book titles point out, and almost any kid kicking a ball anywhere in the world can tell you—is the country of soccer. While the modern sport’s…

  • A new look at race and ethnicity in the borderlands

  • Exploring Whiteness in a Black-Indian Village on Mexico’s Costa Chica The Latin American Diaries Institute of Latin American Studies 2015-06-29 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology University of Southampton During the early colonial period, Mexico had one of the largest African slave populations in Latin America. Today, there are numerous historically black communities…

  • Revealing the Race-Based Realities of Workforce Exclusion NACLA Report on the Americas Volume 47, Number 4 (Winter 2014) pages 26-29 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University Advocates in the fight against poverty in Latin America often center class above race as the factor that most determines Afro-descendants’ life-chances. But a growing movement is…

  • Pao by Kerry Young – review The Guardian 2011-07-03 Ian Thomson Young, Kerry, Pao: A Novel (London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011) Kerry Young’s mesmerising first novel celebrates Jamaica’s ethnic melting pot, and the lost world of Kingston’s Chinatown Jamaica, where Kerry Young was born in 1955, is an island of…

  • Whiteness and Miscegenation: Ethnographic Notes, Social Classifications and Silences in the Brazilian Context Studi Culturali Volume VII, Number 1, April 2010 pages 87-102 DOI: 10.1405/31883 Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz Dipartimento di studi linguistici e culturali Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia This article presents some reflections from ongoing research on white upper-middle class men…