Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Black Lives Matter in the Dominican Republic teleSUR 2015-08-11 Auset Marian Lewis Racial profiling is not just happening in the U.S., Haitians in the Dominican Republic suffer the same discrimination. “Black lives matter” is a resounding cry heard around the world. The UN Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent said as much…

  • Tais Araujo: Fighting Brazil’s Racism Takes More Than A Hashtag teleSUR 2015-11-18 Leopoldo Duarte Taís Araújo‬’s profile picture on her Twitter account. | Photo: Twitter, @taisdeverdade Most Brazilians take pride in living in a “racial democracy.” According to them Brazil is supposedly a country that evaded racism through the amicable blending of its native, African…

  • Brazil sees a rise in number of people who consider themselves black El País Madrid, Spain 2015-11-17 Marina Rossi São Paulo, Brazil English version by Martin Delfín. Participants in the “Curly Hair Pride March,” which was held in July in São Paulo. / CORDON PRESS Sociologists say changes in attitudes have made people more open…

  • An African King in Bolivia The New York Times 2015-11-17 David Gonzalez, Side Street Columnist; Lens Blog Co-Editor King Don Julio Pinedo being helped by his son, Rolando Pinedo, the prince, into a royal cloak. Queen Angelica oversees the details of her husband’s royal dress. Don Julio is shy and does not feel comfortable dressing…

  • ‘Mejorar la Raza’: An Example of Racism in Latino Culture Latino Voices Huffington Post 2015-06-15 Maria Alejandra Casale-Hardin University of California, Hastings, Law Class of 2018 Samuel Lange Zambrano portraying a 9-year-old Venezuelan boy obsessed with straightening his hair in the 2013 film Pelo Malo. ‘Mejorar la raza’ is a common phrase used in Latin…

  • The police committed more than 1 in every 6 of Rio de Janeiro’s homicides between 2010 and 2013.

  • Revisiting Palmares: Maroon Communities in Brazil (Celeste Henery) African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2015-11-09 Celeste Henery, Postdoctoral Fellow University of Texas, Austin This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. She completed a PhD…

  • The Color of Love Lecture & Book Signing University of South Florida Tampa Library Grace Allen Room, 4th Floor 4202 E. Fowler Ave. LIB122 Tampa, Florida Monday, 2015-11-16, 11:00-13:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Assistant Professor in Sociology and ISLAC Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates [in her new book, The Color of Love:…

  • The Sweet (and Sour) Enchantment of Racism in Post-Racial America University of South Florida Patel Center for Global Solutions Auditorium 4202 E Fowler Ave, CGS101 Tampa, Florida 33620 Friday, 2015-11-13, 12:30-13:30 EST (Local Time) Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will be on campus on November 13, 2015, for the purpose of discussing his recent works relating to…

  • Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and observations within ten core families, this study of intimate relationships as sites of racial socialization reveals a new facet of race-based differential treatment and its origins—and the mechanisms that perpetuate these strata across generations.