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Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Cultural Imperialism and the Transformation of Race Relations in Brazil

    Cultural Imperialism and the Transformation of Race Relations in Brazil Latin American Perspectives Issue 178, Volume 38, Number 3 (May 2011) pages 194-208 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X10390624 Bernadete Ramos Beserra, Professor Federal University of Ceará Edward E. Telles, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006.…

  • The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South

    The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South University of North Carolina Press September 2011 320 pages 7.625 x 8.375, 20 color illus., bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3494-7 Sandra A. Gutierrez In this splendid cookbook, bicultural cook Sandra Gutierrez blends ingredients, traditions, and…

  • Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico

    “Land of the Cosmic Race” is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a previously untold story of how individuals in contemporary urban Mexico construct their identities, attitudes, and practices in the context of a dominant national belief…

  • Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was Brazil’s foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a mulatto, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians.

  • The Racial Politics of Culture and Silent Racism in Peru

    The Racial Politics of Culture and Silent Racism in Peru Paper prepared for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Conference on Racism and Public Policy Durban, South Africa 2001-09-03 through 2001-09-05 13 pages Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In this talk mestizaje is both the…

  • Miscegenation Illustrated

    Miscegenation Illustrated Columbus Daily Enquirer Columbus, Georgia 1865-10-27 page 2, column 3 Source: Digital Library of Georgia Extracts from a new Book of Travel, by an American Physician. The Mixture of Race in Peru. The aboriginal race was the Indian; and subsequently there came into the country the Spaniard, the negro, and more recently the…

  • The Original Slave Colony: Barbados and Andrea Stuart’s ‘Sugar in the Blood’

    The Original Slave Colony: Barbados and Andrea Stuart’s ‘Sugar in the Blood’ The Daily Beast 2013-01-24 Eric Herschthal Columbia University Barbados provided the blueprint for all future British slave settlements in the American South. Andrea Stuart talks to Eric Herschthal about how her family was entwined in the island’s tormented history. On the face of…

  • Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire

    Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire Knopf 2013-01-22 384 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-27283-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-96115-0 Andrea Stuart In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the…

  • Methodologies of Socio-Cultural Classification: Contexutalizing the Casta Painting (1710-1800) as a Product of Time

    Methodologies of Socio-Cultural Classification: Contexutalizing the Casta Painting (1710-1800) as a Product of Time Undergraduate Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies Volume 1, Issue 1 (2012) 17 pages Pooja Chaudhuri University of California, Berkeley The “casta painting” appeared in the early 18th century Colonial Mexico (New Spain). The paintings illustrated different offspring produced from sexual…

  • LTAM 140 – Topic in Culture and Politics: Being Brazilian: Race, Cannibalization and Animality in Brazilian Cultural Discourse

    LTAM 140 – Topic in Culture and Politics: Being Brazilian: Race, Cannibalization and Animality in Brazilian Cultural Discourse University of California, San Diego Winter 2010 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies This course provides an introduction to Brazilian culture through essays, poetry, fiction, music and films that consider the meaning of…