Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • ‘Las Caras Lindas’: To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013 Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2013-05-25 Jasmine Garsd I am a black man Who was born café con leche I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited. And I got kicked out. They threw…

  • Casta Painting: Art, Race and Identity in Colonial Mexico (HI972) University of Warwick Coventry, England Spring 2013 Rebecca Earle, Professor of History This module explores the distinctive vision of colonial Mexico purveyed via the artistic genre known as the casta painting. Casta paintings depict the outcomes of different types of inter-ethnic mixing, and often come…

  • The Art of Conversation: Eighteenth-Century Mexican Casta Painting SHIFT: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture Issue 5, 2012 25 pages Mey-Yen Moriuchi Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Traditionally, casta paintings have been interpreted as an isolated colonial Mexican art form and examined within the social historical moment in which they emerged. Casta paintings…

  • The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. [Book Review] The Journal of San Diego History Volume 27, Number 3 (Summer 1981) W. Michael Mathes (1936-2012), Professor of History University of San Francisco The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. By Colin M. MacLachlan and Jaime E. Rodríguez…

  • The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico University of California Press December 1980 408 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520042803 Colin M. MacLachlan, Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Jamie E. Rodríguez, Professor of History University of California, Irvine “The Forging of the Cosmic Race” challenges the widely held notion that…

  • Self-Writing, Literary Traditions, and Post-Emancipation Identity: The Case of Mary Seacole Biography Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000 pages 309-331 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0009 Evelyn J. Hawthorne, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. “ . . . unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it…

  • Internal migration and ethnic division: the case of Palmas, Brazil The Australian Journal of Anthropology Volume 22, Issue 2, August 2011 pages 203–219 DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2011.00134.x Mieke Schrooten Anthropology Department Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Starting from the observation that Brazilian history has led to the development of a very distinct system of race relations, this paper focuses…

  • Community Profiles – Melissa Nobles MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Great Ideas Change the World 2013-04-21 Leda Zimmerman “All societies periodically have to do soul-searching,” says Melissa Nobles, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. With research that illuminates historic episodes of racial and ethnic injustice, Nobles has developed a…

  • Notes on the Racial Contours of Visual Culture in São Paulo, Brazil Flow Volume 17 (2012-12-18) Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan In this three part series of essays I will consider some of the aspects of race and visuality in Brazil. This article will lay out…

  • A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980 Duke University Press 2007 256 pages 29 illus., 8 tables, 1 map Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4081-2  Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4060-7 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature…