Mixed Race Studies

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  • Return to the rainforest: A son’s search for his Amazonian mother

    Return to the rainforest: A son’s search for his Amazonian mother BBC News Magazine 2013-08-28 William Kremer BBC World Service David Good’s parents come from different countries – hardly unusual in the US where he was raised. But the 25-year-old’s family is far from ordinary – while his father is American, his mother is a…

  • Jahaji Bhai: The emergence of a Dougla poetics in Trinidad and Tobago

    Jahaji Bhai: The emergence of a Dougla poetics in Trinidad and Tobago Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 5, Issue 4, 1999 Special Issue: Fight the Power: Changing forms of Consciousness and Protest pages 569-601 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962630 Rhoda Reddock, Professor of Gender and Development Studies University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad…

  • Multiracial Identities in Trinidad and Guyana: Exaltation and Ambiguity

    Multiracial Identities in Trinidad and Guyana: Exaltation and Ambiguity Latin American Issues Volume 13 (1997) (The Caribbean(s) Redefined) Article IV Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Associate Professor of Sociology Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario For people of formerly colonized countries, race mixing among the populace has always been a reality. This is particularly true for Caribbean peoples. This paper…

  • Extended Families: Mixed-Race Children and Scottish Experience, 1770-1820

    Three years prior to the ending of the slave trade, Jamaica’s richest and most influential merchant mused on the possible consequences of abolition. Writing to his friend George Hibbert in January of 1804, Simon Taylor offered a stark vision of the British imperial economy without slave importation, echoing scores of other pro-slavery writers who preached…

  • A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status

    A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status The New York Times 2013-08-23 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief BRASÍLIA — Brazil’s highest court has long viewed itself as a bastion of manners and formality. Justices call one another “Your Excellency,” dress in billowing robes and wrap each utterance in grandiloquence, as if little had…

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas

    Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • Rethinking Race in Brazil

    Rethinking Race in Brazil Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 24, Number 1 (February, 1992) pages 173-192 Howard Winant, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Introduction: the Repudiation of the Centenário 13 May 1988 was the 100th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil. In honour of that date, various official celebrations…

  • A Family Tree That Includes Slaves — And Slave Owners

    A Family Tree That Includes Slaves — And Slave Owners Tell Me More National Public Radio 2013-08-15 Celeste Headlee, Host Part of our summer reading series Island Reads, highlighting authors from the Caribbean Andrea Stuart was curious about her family’s history in Barbados. And through years of careful research, she found that her bloodline includes…

  • Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present by Sara Salih (review)

    Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present by Sara Salih (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 25, Number 4, Summer 2013 pages 777-780 DOI: 10.1353/ecf.2013.0025 Nicole N. Aljoe, Assistant Professor of English Northeastern University Sarah Salih, Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present…

  • Study analyzes ambiguities in the works of Aluísio Azevedo

    Study analyzes ambiguities in the works of Aluísio Azevedo Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2011-06-08 Karina Toledo Agência FAPESP —The Mulatto, by Aluísio Azevedo, is a title that refers to the collective human state. It does not mention a character or a specific situation, but rather a human category that is…