Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Brazil in Black and White Wide Angle Public Broadcasting Service 2007-09-04 About the Issue As one of the most racially diverse nations in the world, Brazil has long considered itself a colorblind “racial democracy.” But deep disparities in income, education and employment between lighter and darker-skinned Brazilians have prompted a civil rights movement advocating equal…

  • Cuba’s mixed-race population grows Fox News Latino 2013-11-08 EFE News Service The number of mixed-race people in Cuba continues to increase as the ranks of those identifying themselves as white or black declines, according to the results of the 2012 Census released Friday. The proportion of mixed-race people grew from 24.9 percent in 2002 to…

  • Mirror, Mirror – Who Is that Woman on TV? Inter Press Service News Agency 2013-10-21 Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 21 2013 (IPS) – Carla Vilas Boas is of mixed-race descent – African, European and indigenous – like a majority of the population of Brazil. But she spends hours straightening her hair, trying to…

  • Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2013-02-15 Antonio Sergio Guimarães, Professor of Sociology Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil I will examine the coining, the uses, and meanings of the expression “racial democracy” from the 1930’s onwards including…

  • Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929–70 Manchester University Press October 2013 192 pages 216 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8867-4 Rochelle Rowe University of Exeter Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history…

  • Review of Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy by Samantha Nogueira Joyce TriQuarterly: a journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry from Northwestern University Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 2013-10-01 Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Telenovelas, or soap operas, are the main staple of television…

  • Subjecting Pleasure: Claude McKay’s Narratives of Transracial Desire Journal of Black Studies Volume 44, Number 7 (October 2013) pages 706-724 DOI: 10.1177/0021934713507579 Smita Das, 2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow University of Illinois, Chicago This article explores the threat posed by the Afro-Asian body in Claude McKay’s novels, Banjo (1929) and Banana Bottom (1933). Banjo’s narrative of transracial…

  • Biracial Costa Ricans worse off than black Ticos, says UNPD report The Tico Times San José, Costa Rica 2013-10-30 Zach Dyer Fewer than 10 percent of Ticos with one white and one black parent attend university, compared to more than 17 percent of self-identified black Costa Ricans. Biracial Costa Ricans struggle with higher rates of…

  • Unbecoming blackness: the diaspora cultures of Afro-Cuban America [Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 5, 2014 pages 889-890 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.847200 Nora Gámez Torres, Visiting scholar Cuban Research Institute Florida International University, Miami Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora cultures of Afro-Cuban America, by Antonio López, New York, New York University Press, 2012, xi + 272…

  • Who is Black? The Final Call 2001-07-10 Rosa Clemente, Guest Columnist Rosa Clemente Yesterday, an interesting thing happened to me. I was told I am not Black. The kicker for me was when my friend stated that the island of Puerto Rico was not a part of the African Diaspora. I wanted to go back…