Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • St Martin de Porres Victoria and Albert Museum: The world’s greatest museum of art and design London, United Kingdom 2014-11-03 William Newton, Assistant Curator Today on Sanctus Ignotum we have a case study in race relations, and our first South American saint. Born in Lima, Peru in 1579, the illegitimate son of a Spanish knight…

  • Parsing Race and Blackness in Mexico Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews Volume 43, Number 6 (November 2014) pages 816-820 DOI: 10.1177/0094306114553216a Enid Logan, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico, by Christina A. Sue  Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013. 234pp. $24.95…

  • Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans The New York Times 2014-10-25 Randal C. Archibold, Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean JOSÉ MARÍA MORELOS, Mexico — Hernán Reyes calls himself “negro” — black — plain and simple. After some thought, Elda Mayren decides she is “Afromexicana,” or African-Mexican. Candido…

  • Discussing Race and Education in Brazil HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory 2014-09-12 Christina Davidson Department of History Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Yesterday at lunch, Maria Lúcia and I sat with a graduate of UFRRJ and an Educação a Distancia tutor for the university, who was headed to the Universidade Federal…

  • Olive Senior Olive Senior’s Gardening in the Tropics 2012 Hyacinth M. Simpson, Associate Professor of English Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Olive Marjorie Senior was born in the parish of Trelawny on the Caribbean island of Jamaica on 23 December 1941. The seventh of ten children, she grew up in the shadow of the Cockpit…

  • The many meanings of the Haitian declaration of independence OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2014-01-03 Philippe R. Girard, Associate Professor of History McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana Two hundred and ten years ago, on 1 January 1804, Haiti formally declared its independence from France at the end of a…

  • Gardening in the Tropics Insomniac Press 2005 (originally published in 1994) 144 pages 5″ x 8″ Paperback ISBN: 1-897178-00-X Olive Senior Gardening in the Tropics contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior’s rich vein of humour can turn wry and then sharp in satire of colour-consciousness, class-consciousness and racism.…

  • The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada by Joanne Rappaport (review) [Roland review] Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 13, Number 3, 2014 pages 253-255 DOI: 10.1353/lag.2014.0045 L. Kaifa Roland, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Colorado, Boulder Joanne Rappaport, The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New…

  • Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes culled from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century archives of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia) to show that individuals classified as “mixed” were not…

  • Divergence or Convergence in the U.S. and Brazil: Understanding Race Relations Through White Family Reactions to Black-White Interracial Couples Qualitative Sociology March 2014, Volume 37, Issue 1 pages 93-115 DOI: 10.1007/s11133-013-9268-2 Chinyere Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden Different approaches to race mixture in the U.S. and Brazil…