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  • Racial Passing in the U.S. and Mexico in the Early Twentieth Century

    Racial Passing in the U.S. and Mexico in the Early Twentieth Century RSF Review: Research from the Russell Sage Foundation Russell Sage Foundation New York, New York 2015-01-22 This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the ongoing research of our current class of Visiting Scholars.…

  • Passing the Line

    Passing the Line Karl Jacoby 2012-12-20 Karl Jacoby, Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York Who was Guillermo Eliseo? Such was the question that any number of people asked themselves during the Gilded Age as this enigmatic figure flitted in and out of an astonishing array of the era’s most noteworthy events—scandalous trials,…

  • The Garifuna Exodus

    The Garifuna Exodus Latino USA 2015-01-23 Maria Hinojosa, Executive Producer & Anchor Marlon Bishop, Producer For centuries, the Garifuna people — descendents of both Africans and indigenous Arawak people from the Caribbean — have lived peacefully in seaside towns on the North Coast of Honduras. There’s always been a trickle of migration from the community…

  • From Behind the Counter: Poems From a Rural Jamaican Experience

    From Behind the Counter: Poems From a Rural Jamaican Experience Ian Randle Publishers 2000-09-05 216 pages 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-9768123879 Easton Lee Photographs by Owen Minott Easton Lee was born to a Chinese father and a Jamaican mother of mixed racial heritage in the 1930s at Wait-a-bit, Trelawny, Jamaica. The…

  • Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality

    Brazil’s traditionally agrarian economy, based initially on slave labor and later on rural labor and tenancy arrangements, established inequalities that have not diminished even with industrial development and urban growth. While fertility and infant mortality rates have dropped significantly and life expectancy has increased during the past thirty years, the gaps in mortality between rich…

  • Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru by Rachel Sarah O’Toole (review)

    Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru by Rachel Sarah O’Toole (review) Journal of Social History Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2014 pages 465-466 Erick D. Langer, Professor of Latin American History Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. O’Toole, Rachel Sarah, Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial…

  • TCK TALENT: Gene Bell-Villada, literary critic, Latin Americanist, novelist, translator and TCK memoirist

    TCK TALENT: Gene Bell-Villada, literary critic, Latin Americanist, novelist, translator and TCK memoirist The Displaced Nation: A home for international creatives 2015-01-21 Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang Professor Gene Bell-Villada (own photo) Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang is here with her first column of 2015. For those who haven’t been following: she is building up quite a collection of…

  • Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics

    Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question “Where are you from?”

  • Black Cubans: Restoring US Ties Is Cool, but America, Keep Your Hang-Ups About Race at Bay

    Black Cubans: Restoring US Ties Is Cool, but America, Keep Your Hang-Ups About Race at Bay The Root 2015-01-21 Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele, Staff Writer Will the current racial tensions in America seep into Cuba and awaken a sleeping giant? Black Cubans say probably not. It doesn’t matter how much Cuba’s culture changes now that the…

  • A Multiethnic Movement Emerges in Guyana to Counter Politics-as-Usual

    A Multiethnic Movement Emerges in Guyana to Counter Politics-as-Usual The New York Times 2015-01-17 Girish Gupta GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Swaying to the rhythms of Afro-Guyanese reggae, the protesters, descendants of African slaves and indentured laborers from India, gathered on the streets of Georgetown in a show of unity against the country’s president. A few years…