Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • “Chinese Cubans” shows how Chinese migration, intermarriage, and assimilation are central to Cuban history and national identity during a key period of transition from slave to wage labor and from colony to nation. On a broader level, López draws out implications for issues of race, national identity, and transnational migration, especially along the Pacific rim.

  • Contact of Races in Brazil Social Forces Volume 19, Number 4 (May, 1941) pages 533-538 DOI: 10.2307/2571211 Arthur Ramos University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL, as well as other American countries, was originally a land of conquests; the growth of its population has developed by the contact or confluence of European settlers with the…

  • Zumbi dos Palmares College encourages Afro-Brazilians to study Infosurhoy.com 2012-04-27 InfoSurHoy.com is a one-stop source of news and information about, and for, Latin America and the Caribbean. It is sponsored by the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM). Thiago Borges Opened in 2004 in São Paulo, the institution reserves 50% of its enrollment for people of…

  • Affirmative Action in Brazil: Slavery’s Legacy The Economist Americas View: The Americas 2013-04-26 H.J. São Paulo TO SUM up recent research predicting a mixed-race future for humanity, biologist Stephen Stearns of Yale University turns to an already intermingled nation. In a few centuries, he says, we will all “look like Brazilians”. Brazil shares with the…

  • Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex, Sexuality, and Race in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise small axe: a caribbean journal of criticism Volume 16,Number 2, 38 (2012) pages 43-59 DOI: 10.1215/07990537-1665668 Sam Vásquez, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Increased criticism and representations…

  • Race-Crossing Sacramento Daily Union Volume 2, Number 4 (1890-06-08) page 1, column 4 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Lima, the capital of Peru, is pronounced to be the headquarters of all the world’s mongreldom. Its population is the product of three centuries of race-crossing, and a scientific investigator finds easily distinguishable among the inhabitants the…

  • Race, Policy, and Culture: An Identity Crisis for Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil Melissa S. Creary, MPH, Doctoral Candidate Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts Emory University Professor Howard Kushner, Chair Professor Jeffrey Lesser, Co-Chair Abstract of Dissertation Prospectus In 2001, Cândida and Altair, a married couple, started a national organization to increase the rights of…

  • The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Random House 2012-09-18 432 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7 Tom Reiss Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo—a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count…

  • The Puzzling Whiteness of Brazilian Politicians Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Center for Latin American Studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 2012 pages 30-32 Jean Spencer, Outreach and Publications Coordinator Center for Latin American Studies Is Brazil really a racial democracy? The idea of racial democracy, originally put forth by the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto…

  • Racialisation in Brazil [Karina Round] Mapping Global Racisms Project (2012- ) University of Leeds Working Papers 10 pages Karina Round This paper is going to explore the processes of racialisation in Brazil, a country were race is supposed to be irrelevant. Racialisation is the dynamic and complex process through which racial categories, concepts and divisions…