Mixed Race Studies

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  • The portrait of a nation: Edgard Roquette-Pinto’s study on the Brazilian ‘anthropological types’, 1910-1920

    The portrait of a nation: Edgard Roquette-Pinto’s study on the Brazilian ‘anthropological types’, 1910-1920 (Retratos da nação: os ‘tipos antropológicos’ do Brasil nos estudos de Edgard Roquette-Pinto, 1910-1920) Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas Volume 7, Number 3 (September/December 2012) pages 645-670 ISSN 1981-8122 DOI: 10.1590/S1981-81222012000300003 Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio…

  • Eugenics in South America

    Eugenics in South America Eugenical News Volume 7, Number 3 (March, 1922) pages 17-42 Reginald G. Harris Ever since the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws of inheritance plant and animal breeders have been occupied with conducting experiments on a large number of widely varying types of organisms. These experiments hare brought to light the method of…

  • Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars

    In “Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses,” Betsy Erkkilä argues that it is through the historical and psychological dramas of blood as a marker of violence, or race, or sex, or kinship that Americans have struggled over the meanings of democracy, citizenship, culture, national belonging, and the idea of America itself as it was constituted and…

  • From Colour-Blindness to Recognition? Political Paths to New Identity Practices in Brazil and France

    From Colour-Blindness to Recognition? Political Paths to New Identity Practices in Brazil and France Prepared for presentation at the conference: Le multiculturalisme a-t-il un avenir? Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne University 2010-02-26 through 2010-02-27 25 pages Karen Bird, Associate Professor of Political Science McMaster University, Canada Jessica Franklin Department of Political Science McMaster University, Canada For decades,…

  • In Brazil, a mix of racial openness and exclusion

    In Brazil, a mix of racial openness and exclusion Nordonia Hills News-Leader Kent, Ohio 2013-03-14 Jenny Barchfield Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Many Brazilians cast their country as racial democracy where people of different groups long have intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population. But you need only turn on the TV, open…

  • Brazilian Population ‘Color’ Self-Descriptors

    Source: National Survey by Household Sample (PNAD). Extracted from: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, “Not black, not white: just the opposite. Culture, race and national identity in Brazil,” Centre for Brazilian Studies, Working Paper Number CBS-47-03, (2003): 5.

  • The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse

    The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse Springer 2013 348 pages 32 illustrations Hardcover ISBN 978-94-007-4607-7 eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4608-4 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4608-4 Edited by: Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Addresses the issue of skin color in a worldwide context Discusses the introduction of new forms of visual media…

  • Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community

    Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community University of Texas Press August 1998 320 pages ISBN-10: 0292728190; ISBN-13: 978-0292728196 Edmund Gordon, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin This book is out of print. Based on a decade the author spent among the African-Caribbean “Creole” people on Nicaragua’s southern Caribbean coast, Disparate…

  • IU Libraries Film Archive a treasure chest of educational, rare films

    IU Libraries Film Archive a treasure chest of educational, rare films inside IU Bloomington Weekly news for faculty and staff from the Indiana University Bloomington campus 2013-03-07 Lynn Schoch, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs Many of a certain age—particularly those who were in elementary school in the ’50s and ’60s—will remember 16…

  • “Interracial” Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts?

    “Interracial” Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts? American Anthropologist Volume 101, Issue 3 (September 1999) pages 563–578 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1999.101.3.563 Donna Goldstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Colorado, Boulder Racial democracy is maintained in Brazil through both scholarly and popular discourses that consider “interracial” sex as proof of Brazil’s lack of a racial…