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  • A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War

    A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War Center for Greater Southwestern Studies University of Texas at Arlington 2013-06-18 The Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington announces the launch of a new website, A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War. Drawn from the holdings of UT Arlington’s Special Collections, long recognized as…

  • Facing up to the Failure of “Racial Democracy” in Brazil

    Facing up to the Failure of “Racial Democracy” in Brazil Planète Afrique: Articles on Africa and the African Diaspora Written by Hishaam Aidi for Various Magazines First published: 2001-11-28 Hishaam Aidi, Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs Columbia University What do the Brazilians who call themselves “prieto,” “pardo” and “mestico” have in common?…

  • Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil

    Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil Cambridge University Press December 1997 412 pages 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521585903 Hardback ISBN: 9780521584555 Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO New York Public Library In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthony W. Marx provocatively links the construction…

  • In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots

    In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots The Washington Post 2005-05-05 Monte Reel BUENOS AIRES — Their disappearance is one of Argentina’s most enduring mysteries. In 1810, black residents accounted for about 30 percent of the population of Buenos Aires. By 1887, however, their numbers had plummeted to 1.8 percent. So where did they…

  • Blackout: How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience

    Blackout: How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience International Business Times New York, New York 2013-06-04 Palash Ghosh, Senior Writer, World Tens of millions of black Africans were forcibly removed from their homelands from the 16th century to the 19th century to toil on the plantations and farms of the New World. This…

  • The Cuban Remix: Rethinking Culture and Political Participation in Contemporary Cuba

    The Cuban Remix: Rethinking Culture and Political Participation in Contemporary Cuba University of Michigan 2008 555 pages Tanya L. Saunders A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) This dissertation examines the post-1959 activism of Cuba’s socially critical artists and intellectuals, and the effects of the…

  • Hairdos deployed in Brazil’s fight against racism

    Hairdos deployed in Brazil’s fight against racism Agence France-Press (AFP) News 2013-05-23 Laura Bonilla RIO DE JANEIRO — Nothing like a good hairdo to fight deeply entrenched racism in one of the world’s emerging economic giants. The tools of battle, such as scissors and conditioners, are being wielded on the outskirts of Rio in a…

  • Black in Latin America

    Black in Latin America New York University Press July 2011 270 pages 50 illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780814732984 Paperback ISBN: 9780814738184 eBook ISBN: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous…

  • Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival

    Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival University of Illinois Press May 2013 216 pages 6 x 9 in. 16 black & white photographs, 3 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03751-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07901-6 Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University…

  • Casta Paintings: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico by Ilona Katzew; Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings by Magali M. Carrera

    Casta Paintings: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico by Ilona Katzew; Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings by Magali M. Carrera The Art Bulletin Volume 88, Number 1 (March, 2006) pages 185-189 Thomas B.F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art Harvard University…