Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist by G. Reginald Daniel (review) Hispanic Review Volume 82, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 116-119 DOI: 10.1353/hir.2014.0008 Mércia Santana Flannery, Lecturer of Portuguese Romance Languages Department University of Pennsylvania G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist, 336 pages, hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-05246-5.…

  • Home is Where the Hurt Is: Racial Socialization, Stigma, and Well-Being in Afro-Brazilian Families Duke University 2012 228 pages Elizabeth Hordge Freeman Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Sociology in the Graduate School of Duke University This dissertation examines racial socialization in…

  • Imagining Brazil: Seduction, Samba Canadian Woman Studies / Les Caheiers de la Femme Volume 20, Number 2 (2000) pages 48-56 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada En utilisant des paroles de chants rythmés sur la samba et d‘autre matériel ethnographique, l‘auteure detecte la presence du mulâtre et de propos racistes dans…

  • Celebrating Afro-Venezuelan Heritage Global Exchange Reality Tour Blog 2013-12-13 The following post is written by Reality Tours communications intern William Jones Jr as he explores Afro-Venezuelan identity historically and in its current context. Visit Venezuela on a Reality Tour to learn more about the struggles, contributions, and successes of Afro-Venezuelans. History and Legacy Under the…

  • Whiter Shades of Pale: “Coloring In” Machado de Assis and Race in Contemporary Brazil Latin American Research Review Volume 48, Number 3 (2013) pages 3-24 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2013.0046 Alex Flynn, Lecturer in Anthropology Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom Elena Calvo-González, Professor of Anthropology Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Marcelo Mendes de Souza Department of Comparative Literature…

  • Racial Democracy and Nationalism in Panama Ethnology Volume 45, Number 3 (Summer, 2006) pages 209-228 DOI: 10.2307/20456595 Carla Guerrón-Montero, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Black American Studies, and Women’s Studies University of Delaware In spite of having more fluid and flexible racial boundaries than other regions of the world, Latin America continues to…

  • Am I supposed to be more Brazilian than black? Africa is a Country 2013-12-20 Daniel Barbosa We’re always told (by our media, politicians, commentators, etcetera) that Brazil is the most multicultural and multiracial country in the world. That Brazilian miscegenation gave birth to a unique kind of beauty and that the Brazilian mixture of races…

  • Chinese in Latin America H-Soz-u-Kult Außereuropäische Geschichte 2013-12-13 Dorothea A. L. Martin, Professor of History Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina Delgado, Grace: Making the Chinese Mexican. Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2012. ISBN 978-0-8047-7814-5; 304 S.; € 49,93. Look Lai, Walton; Chee-Beng, Tan (Hrsg.): The Chinese…

  • The Chinese migration to the Latin America/Caribbean region is an understudied dimension of the Asian American experience.

  • From Aesthetics to Allegory: Raphaël Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation Small Axe Volume 17, Number 3, November 2013 (No. 42) pages 89-99 Justin Izzo, Assistant Professor of French Studies Brown University This essay examines the roles played by ethnographic writing and translation in Raphaël Confiant’s 1994 L’allée des soupirs. This novel fictionalizes the…