Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Becoming a black woman: an identity in process Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2013-07-31 Fernanda Souza “(…) We are born preta (black), mulata, parda, brown, roxinha (a little purple) among others, but becoming negra (black) (1) is an achievement.” (Lélia Gonzalez) “How (does one) to form an…

  • The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (2014-01-30) ISSN: 2325-4521 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Barbaral Saya…

  • GalleryDAAS: Photographs by Ed West University of Michigan G648 Haven Hall 505 S State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2014-03-13 through 2014-05-02 Opening Reception: 2014-03-14, 17:30-20:00 CDT (Local Time) Hosted by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) GalleryDAAS presents So Called, a photography series by award-winning artist and U-M professor Edward West. Curated…

  • Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative after 1848 University of Nebraska Press 2006 160 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4400-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2067-6 Andrea Tinnemeyer, English Teacher The College Prepartory School, Oakland, California Andrea Tinnemeyer’s book examines the nineteenth-century captivity narrative as a dynamic, complex genre that provided an ample medium for cultural critique, a revision of…

  • “Tuning Out Blackness” fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television.

  • How sexism, racism, and socio-economic inequality interact in the Brazilian sex industry

  • Migrating race: migration and racial identification among Puerto Ricans Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Number 3 (2014-02-23) pages 383-404 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.672759 Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College, City University of New York The pattern of racial identification among Puerto Ricans is not uniform. It varies depending on where they…

  • And if We Weren’t Genetically Mixed Race? Cubanow Havana, Cuba 2013-12-23 Luis Toledo Sande (Translated by Dayamí Interián) To effectively fight racism, it’s necessary to know everything about it and expose its tricks. Otherwise, we run the risk of getting trapped by them, since they are powerful, able to “innocently” camouflage themselves in the interstices…

  • Brazil Endorses International Decade for People of African Descent Americas Quarterly: The Policy Journal for Our Hemisphere Blog 2014-01-16 Shari Wejsa On Monday, December 23, 2013, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution establishing the International Decade for People of African Descent, which will run from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2024. The…

  • (Re)mapping the Borderlands of Blackness: Afro-Mexican Consciousness and the Politics of Culture Duke University 2013 233 pages Talia Weltman-Cisneros Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Romance Studies in the Graduate School of Duke University The dominant cartography of post-Revolutionary Mexico has relied…