Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Black in a Foreign Land: In Defense of Dominican Identity The Huffington Post 2015-12-17 César Vargas I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic until I was two months shy of turning 13. The Dominican Republic has a peculiar color metric system–not necessarily on race. So it should go without saying that I wasn’t…

  • White Latino Racism on the Rise: It’s Time for a Serious Conversation on Euro-Diasporic Whiteness Latino Rebels 2015-12-21 Wiliam Garcia A common misconnection that exists today rests on the notion that there are no racial hierarchies in Latin American countries or within the Latino communities in the United States. In other words, Latino (or Hispanic)…

  • José Maurício Nunes Garcia Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Last modified: 2015-12-08 José Maurício Nunes Garcia (September 20, 1767 – April 18, 1830) was a Brazilian classical composer, one of the greatest exponents of Classicism in the Americas. Born in Rio de Janeiro, son of mulattos, Nunes Garcia lost his father at an early age, and…

  • National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America Oxford University Press 2014-07-07 400 pages 22 b/w line illus., 4 b/w halftones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199337354 Paperback ISBN: 9780199337361 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley The first comprehensive history of census-taking and nation-making in nineteen Latin American…

  • Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico by Ileana Rodríguez-Silva (review) The Americas Volume 72, Number 4, October 2015 pages 655-657 Isar Godreau, Researcher Interdisciplinary Research Institute University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana M., Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico (London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,…

  • Identity Crisis for the Creole Woman: A Search for Self in Wide Sargasso Sea McKendree University Scholars Journal Lebanon, Illinois Issue 10, Winter 2008 Stephanie Coartney “‘And how will you like that’ I thought, as I kissed him. ‘How will you like being made exactly like other people?’” (Rhys 22). In this excerpt from Jean…

  • The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil Hackett Publishing Company March 2013 ca. 152 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-60384-853-3; 978-1-60384-853-4 Paper ISBN: 1-60384-852-5; 978-1-60384-852-7 Examination ISBN: 1-60384-852-5; 978-1-60384-852-7 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) Edited by: John Charles Chasteen, Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Accompanied by a thorough…

  • Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman’s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.

  • Machado de Assis: A Literary Life Yale University Press 2015-05-26 360 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 2 b/w illus. ISBN: 9780300180824 K. David Jackson, Professor of Portuguese and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese Yale University Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s…

  • Through its author’s contention that the Haitian revolutionary wars were incessantly racialized by four constantly recurring racial tropes—the ‘monstrous hybrid’, the ‘tropical temptress’, the ‘tragic mulatto/a’, and the ‘mulatto legend of history’, Tropics of Haiti shows the ways in which the nineteenth-century tendency to understand Haiti’s revolution in primarily racial terms has affected present day…