Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusán in Peru University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3111-0 Ignacio López-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature University of California, Merced Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, Professor Emeritus Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in…

  • In Puerto Rico, a push to revive indigenous culture The Associated Press 2015-04-20 Anica Coto SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico (AP) — In Puerto Rico’s misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava and sweet potato as they learn about the indigenous people…

  • Brazilian soap operas slowly cast black middle class Al Jazeera America 2015-04-11 Matt Sandy Morgann Jezequel Actor Sílvio Guindane poses on the set of the telenovela Vitória at Record studios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October, 2014. Rafael Fabres / Getty Images Assignment for Al Jazeera America Black actors move beyond roles as maids, thieves and…

  • Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans University Press of Florida 2006-05-30 304 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-2942-9 Nicole von Germeten, Associate Professor of History Oregon State University Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity…

  • Mestizaje and Globalization: Transformations of Identity and Power University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 10 photos, 3 illlustrations, 5 tables 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3090-8 Stefanie Wickstrom, Senior Lecturer of Political Science Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington Philip D. Young (1936-2013), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of Oregon The Spanish word mestizaje does…

  • Dismantling the Racial Paradise Stanford University Press Blog March 2015 Tiffany Joseph, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York How migration to and from the U.S. is transforming notions of race in Brazil. I still remember my first trip to Brazil—I was amazed…

  • Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race Stanford University Press February 2015 240 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780804792202 Paper ISBN: 9780804794350 Digital ISBN: 9780804794398 Tiffany D. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York Race on the Move takes…

  • Rivas awarded NEH Summer Stipends award to work on book News From Marshall University Huntington, West Virginia 2015-03-25 Dave Wellman, Director of Communications Telephone: (304) 696-7153 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Zelideth Maria Rivas, an assistant professor of Japanese in Marshall University’s Department of Modern Languages, has been awarded a “very competitive” National Endowment for the…

  • The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada by Joanne Rappaport (review) [von Germeten] The Americas Volume 72, Number 1, January 2015 pages 159-160 Nicole von Germeten, Associate Professor of History Oregon State University Rappaport, Joanne, The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Durham: Duke University…

  • The Culture of Curls: What Hair Really Means in Mixed Race Societies The Yale Globalist 2013-12-24 Isidora Stankovic Timothy Dwight College Yale University Look through any fashion magazine and you might notice something puzzling. Almost without exception, models of every race have the same sleek, straightened hair. The message from these media sources seems clear:…