Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Amid sweeping changes in US relations, Cuba’s race problem persists Al Jazeera America 2015-08-13 Julia Cooke In 1959, Fidel Castro said he would work to erase racial discrimination, but inequality is still widespread Official Cuban census figures say black and mixed-heritage people are about 35 percent of the island’s population, but a quick stroll around…

  • Dark-Skinned Or Black? How Afro-Brazilians Are Forging A Collective Identity Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-08-12 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent Sisters Francine and Fernanda Gravina have German, Italian, African and indigenous ancestry. (Lourdes Garcia-Navarro/NPR) If you want to get a sense of how complex racial identity is in…

  • Three personal stories that show Brazil is not completely beyond racism The Globe and Mail Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2015-07-31 Stephanie Nolen, Latin America Correspondent Brazil’s national mythology is built on the idea of a democracia racial – a country whose population is uniquely mixed and has moved beyond racism. The lived experience of its citizens,…

  • Brazil is combating many kinds of inequality. But one of the world’s most diverse nations is still just beginning to talk about race

  • An Intellectual History of Black Women Katharine Cornell Theater 54 Spring Street Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts 02568 Sunday, 2015-08-02, 19:00-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Moderator: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies Harvard University Discussants: Farah J. Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and…

  • Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature University Press of Mississippi 2015-07-10 234 pages 1 b&w illustration, 3 maps, introduction, epilogue, index 6 x 9 inches Hardcover ISBN:9781628464757 Edited by: Dillon Brown, Associate Professor of English and African and African American Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Leah Reade Rosenberg, Associate Professor of English University of…

  • The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al sacar—a royal exemption that provided the privileges of Whiteness.

  • Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation Routledge 2015-05-08 (orginally published in 1969) 122 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781138785007 Hardback ISBN: 9781138784994 Franklin J. Franco (1936-2013) Introduction by: Silvio Torres-Saillant, Dean’s Professor in the Humanities Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation is the first English translation of the classic text Los negros,…

  • A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba

  • Long Time No See: A memoir of fathers, daughters and games of chance Periscope 2015-07-24 336 pages 204mm x 138mm Paperback ISBN: 9781859643969 Hannah Lowe Hannah Lowe’s father “Chick”, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family – except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he…