Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Let’s Talk About Race (in Latin@ Communities) NACLA Report on the Americas New York, New York 2014-10-16 Melissa M. Valle, Ph.D. candidate Columbia University, New York, New York While many trivialize race in Latin@ communities as abstract and irrelevant, Afro-Latin@s are still fighting a definitive racial hierarchy. They say that the Devil’s greatest trick is…

  • Kathleen López: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History New Books in Latin American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of Latin America about Their New Books 2014-11-21 Alejandra Bronfman, Associate Professor of History University of British Columbia, Canada Successive waves of migration brought thousands of Chinese laborers to Cuba over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The coolie trade,…

  • Is Parental Love Colorblind? Human Capital Accumulation within Mixed Families The Review of Black Political Economy 2014-07-04 DOI: 10.1007/s12114-014-9190-1 Marcos A. Rangel, Assistant Professor Sanford School of Public Policy Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Studies have shown that differences in wage-determinant skills between blacks and whites emerge during a child’s infancy, highlighting the roles of…

  • Ormonde is a chapbook by the award-winning writer Hannah Lowe, which brings together a cycle of poems and unique personal and historical archives to chart the 1947 journey of SS Ormonde, the first post-WW2 ship (more than a year before SS Empire Windrush) to carry immigrants from Jamaica to the UK.

  • Growing Up “Too Black” In Trinidad The New Local: Think Global, Read Local 2014-11-10 Malaika Crichlow Miami, Florida I grew up in Trinidad in the 80s and 90s as a black girl child. To be black in a country that idealizes the curly hair and mixed ethnicity aesthetic is rough to say the least. Although…

  • Honduran held in Mexican jail returns home BBC News 2014-11-08 A Honduran migrant who was jailed for more than five years by Mexican police is expected to arrive in his home country on Sunday. Angel Amilcar Colon Quevedo belongs to the Garifuna community, descended from African slaves and indigenous groups. He was picked up in…

  • Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference University of Georgia Press 2013-11-15 256 pages 18 b&w photos, 1 map Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-4505-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4662-5 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4634-2 Jenny Shaw, Assistant Professor of History University of Alabama A new examination of the experiences…

  • In “The Mulatto Republic,” April Mayes looks at the many ways Dominicans define themselves through race, skin color, and culture. She explores significant historical factors and events that have led the nation, for much of the twentieth century, to favor privileged European ancestry and Hispanic cultural norms such as the Spanish language and Catholicism.

  • Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the contributors to “Mestizo Genomics” explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research.

  • Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America University of North Carolina Press October 2014 320 pages 59 figs., 4 maps, 23 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-1783-1 Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University and The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) Princeton University Pigmentocracies—the fruit…