Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Breaking the silence on Afro-Cuban history Daily Kos 2015-07-26 Denise Oliver Velez The news of the re-opening of Cuba’s embassy in the U.S., and America’s embassy in Cuba, was covered worldwide this past week, garnering particular interest in the Caribbean and Latin America, and in Cuban-American communities in the U.S., in stories like this: Cuba…

  • “We Are Not Racists, We Are Mexicans”: Privilege, Nationalism and Post-Race Ideology in Mexico Critical Sociology Published online before print 2015-06-18 DOI: 10.1177/0896920515591296 Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Emiko Saldívar, Associate Project Scientist Department of Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara This article analyses the conflicting understandings surrounding…

  • Thinking ‘Post-Racial’ Ideology Transnationally: The Contemporary Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Americas Critical Sociology Published online before print 2015-07-03 DOI: 10.1177/0896920515591175 Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa, Assistant Professor, Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies in Education University of Alberta, Canada This article introduces the special issue on post-racial ideologies and politics in the Americas. It…

  • The Global African – Mexican Afro-descendants The Global African 2014-12-03 Bill Fletcher, Host Randal Archibold, Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean The New York Times (Author of the article “Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans”) William Loren Katz Author of: Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage Each week on…

  • CUNY Exhibition Documents Lives of Black Africans in Early Dominican Republic The New York Times 2015-07-13 Sandra E. Garcia Scholars at the City University of New York are using clues left in 16th-century manuscripts and Spanish records to track the lives of the earliest black Africans in the Dominican Republic. An exhibition now on view…

  • Early Afro-Mexican Settlers in California C-SPAN: Created by Cable 2015-05-20 Host: California Historical Society Professor Carlos Manuel Salomon, author of Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California, talked about Mexicans of African descent who were some of the first non-Indian settlers in California. Many came from Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico, with the Anza Expedition in…

  • Mexico’s hidden people Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-07-10 Abby Reimer, Special to CNN Photograph: Mara Sanchez Renero (CNN)—An estimated 200,000 Africans were brought to Mexico under slavery, which ended in the country in 1829. Yet Afro-Mexicans remain a marginalized and often forgotten part of Mexico’s identity. Photographer Mara Sanchez Renero first learned about Afro-Mexicans as…

  • Q & A with Ana Carolina Vidal + her Afro-Futuristic project Rooted In Magazine 2015-07-08 Annina Chirade O Mestiço Revisited II, Ana Carolina Vidal São Paulo native, Ana Carolina Vidal, is a multi-racial Brazilian artist who explores the dynamics of her country through her art. Her work is largely focused on portraiture; each piece in…

  • Brown Theology, Critical Race Theory, and the Laws of Burgos Jesus for Revolutionaries 2015-06-29 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles The fervent cries of Montesino soon reached the ears of King Ferdinand.   On March 20, 1512, the king ordered Governor Diego Columbus to silence…

  • As South Carolina deals with its Confederate flag, one town in Brazil flies it with pride The World Public Radio International 2015-06-22 Bradley Campbell, Producer Descendants of American Southerners wearing Confederate-era dresses and uniforms dance during a party to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War in Santa Barbara D’Oeste,…