Mixed Race Studies

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  • A Realidade da Ficção: Ambiguidades Literárias e Sociais em ‘O Mulato’ de Aluísio Azevedo (The Reality of Fiction: Literary and social ambiguities in “The Mulatto” by Aluísio Azevedo)

    The synthesis of this work Estramanho Rodrigo de Almeida should be added the happy choice (as it should be) an epigraph taken from the work of Dercy Ribeiro: “Tour between the two conflicting worlds – that of the black, which he rejects, and white, the rejects – the mulatto humanizes the drama to be two,…

  • Empathetic eye

    Empathetic eye Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2011-06-08 Fábio de Castro Agência FAPESP – In 1865, an expedition led by Swiss natural scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) of Harvard University travelled around Brazil for 15 months to study the country. Among the voluntary collectors that participated in the expedition was a…

  • Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Diaries, Letters, and Drawings, 1865-1866

    Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Diaries, Letters, and Drawings, 1865-1866 Harvard University Press November 2006 230 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 38 line drawings; 10 black and white halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674021334 Maria Helena P.T. Machado, Professor of History University of São Paulo In 1865, twenty-three-year-old William James began his studies at the…

  • Japanese migration to Brazil was part of a peaceful expansionist policy

    Japanese migration to Brazil was part of a peaceful expansionist policy Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2012-07-25 Elton Alisson USP historian Shozo Motoyama makes the above assertion in a study on the first stage of Japanese immigration to Brazil, which covers the process of cultural integration Agência FAPESP – Japanese…

  • Masculinity and whiteness in the construction of the Brazilian Republic

    Masculinity and whiteness in the construction of the Brazilian Republic Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the São Paulo Research Foundation 2013-06-12 José Tadeu Arantes Sexual discipline and whitening of the population were the guidelines of the conservative modernization promoted by the elite, affirms study Agência FAPESP – Masculinity and whiteness were the ideals of the…

  • Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World

    Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World Social History of Medicine Volume 26, Issue 3 (August 2013) pages 364-382 DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkt011 Londa Schiebinger, The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science Stanford University This article examines medical experimentation with humans in the Atlantic world. Physicians in this period tended to use bodies…

  • Interracial Families in 18th-Century Mexico

    Interracial Families in 18th-Century Mexico The Root 2013-07-23 Unknown artist working in New Spain (Mexico), De español y negra mulata, oil on canvas, 36 by 48 cm (Museo de America, Madrid) Image of the Week: A painting captures the multiethnic population in New Spain, now Mexico. One of the most typical, revealing products of colonial…

  • Burton Mixed Heritage Oral Hers/His story project

    Burton Mixed Heritage Oral Hers/His story project East Staffordshire Rights & Equality Council (ESREC) July 2012 39 pages The mixed heritage community is the fastest growing ethnic minority group in the UK and is predicted to be the largest minority ethnic group by 2020.The ethnicity category Mixed was first introduced in the 2001 UK Census,…

  • Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru

    Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru University Press of Florida 2011-04-17 246 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3574-1 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4449-1 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English—in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades—to address…

  • An Earth-Colored Sea: ‘Race’, Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World

    An Earth-Colored Sea: ‘Race’, Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World Berghahn Books 2003 176 pages index Hardback ISBN: 978-1-57181-607-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57181-608-5 Miguel Vale de Almeida,  Professor of Anthropology Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisbon Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years,…