Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Pigmentocracy in the Americas: How is Educational Attainment Related to Skin Color? Latin American Pubic Opinion Project AmericasBarometer Insights Number 73 (2012) Vanderbilt University 2012-02-20 Number 73 (2012) 9 pages Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Liza Steele Department of Sociology Princeton University Executive Summary: This Insights report addresses the question of whether educational…

  • Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 55, Number 4 (July 2007) pages 709-734 Hugo Ñopo Inter-Amerian Development Bank Jaime Saavedra World Bank Máximo Torero International Food Policy Research Institute This study examines the relationship between earnings and racial differences in a context in which various races have…

  • Spaniards, ‘pardos’, and the missing mestizos: identities and racial categories in the early Hispanic Caribbean New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Volume 71, Numbers 1&2 (1997) pages 5-19 Stuart B. Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History Yale University Traces the history of the mestizos, the descendants of Spanish-Indian contacts during the early…

  • The Origins and Authors of the Code Noir Louisiana Law Review Volume 56, Number 2 (Winter 1996) pages 363-407 Vernon Valentine Palmer, Thomas Pickles Professor of Law Tulane University, New Orleans I. Introduction The Code Noir marked France’s historic rendezvous with slavery in the Americas. It was one of the most important codes in the…

  • UWI lecturer on 2011 census: Mixed-race figures can change voting pattern in T&T Guardian Media Trinidad & Tobago Guardian Online 2013-02-22 Raphael John-Lall The view that there is race-based voting in T&T is a mere “illusion,” says Dr Fuad Khan, Minister of Health and UNC MP for the Barataria/San Juan constituency. “We do not have…

  • The story of the Hay children in Dornoch, however, was not at all unique at the turn of the nineteenth century. Rather, the Hays were members of a regular migration of mixed-race West Indians who arrived in the home country during the period.

  • “Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy,” by Samantha Nogueira Joyce, examines what happens when a telenovela directly addresses matters of race and racism in contemporary Brazil.

  • Japanese-Brazilian Music and Ethnic Identity in the Post-Dekasegi Era: A lecture by Shanna Lorenz Barnard College, Columbia University Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall 3009 Broadway, New York, New York 2013-02-28, 18:00 EST (Local Time) Shanna Lorenz, Assistant Professor, Music; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies Occidental College, Los Angeles This talk explores how…

  • Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds Journal of Black Studies Volume 44, Number 2 (March 2013) pages 158-181 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712471533 Katerina Deliovsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Tamari Kitossa, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario This article examines a selection of…

  • Racialisation in Jamaica Mapping Global Racisms Project (2012- ) University of Leeds Working Papers 13 pages Benjamin Joyce Introduction The processes of racialisation in Jamaica reflect a complex and sustained ideological grounding upon colonial logics which actively repress perceived racial otherness. Despite the insistence of governmental institutions and the projected image of a raceless nation,…