Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship Journal of Black Studies Volume 43, Number 8 (November 2012) pages 847-871 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712461794 Niyi Afolabi, Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Between the radicalism of Black Brazilian movements of the 1980s, an aftermath of the negation and rejection of the myth of…

  • An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.

  • Figuring Abjection: The Slave Mother in the Early Creole Novel French Studies Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2013 pages 61-75 DOI: 10.1093/fs/kns232 Maeve McCusker School of Modern Languages Queen’s University Belfast While twentieth-century Caribbean literature in French has generated a substantial body of criticism, earlier writings have largely been neglected. This article begins by contextualizing…

  • Beyond Confronting the Myth of Racial Democracy: The Role of Afro-Brazilian Women Scholars and Activists Gettysburg College Faculty Publications Paper 1 (November 2007) 55 pages Nathalie Lebon, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania This paper offers a synopsis of the current scholarship mapping the social and economic exclusion of…

  • Race, Nation, And Cultural Identity In Brazil (AN200) IES Abroad Chicago, Illinois Program(s): Rio de Janeiro – Study Brazil Terms offered: Fall, Spring Enrique Larreta, Director of the Institute of Cultural Pluralism Candido Mendes University The main focus of the course is the construction of national identity in modern Brazil, exploring the different processes that…

  • Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics Peter Lang 2008 261 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-09-3 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-04-8 Peter Burke University of Cambridge Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke Centre for Latin American Studies University of Cambridge Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a sociologist, a historian,…

  • Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 University of Pennsylvania Press 2005 288 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-3867-9 Jill Lane, Associate Professor of  Theater and Performance Studies New York University Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 offers a critical history of the relation between racial impersonation, national sentiment, and the emergence of an anticolonial public sphere in nineteenth-century Cuba. Through…

  • The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920) Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 89, Number 3 (2009) pages 435-470 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2009-002 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison From the mid-nineteenth century, central statistics agencies contributed to nation-state building through their dual mission of producing statistical description and…

  • The Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain Ethnohistory Volume 59, Number 4 (2012) pages 713-738 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-1642725 Robert C. Schwaller, Assistant Professor of History University of Kansas One of the most interesting aspects of sixteenth-century Mexico is the predominance of native languages, Nahuatl in particular, among all members of…

  • The Politics of Samba Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Volume 2, Number 2 (Summer/Fall 2001) Bruce Gilman Samba, which was created in its present form in the 1910s, yet whose roots reach back much farther and tie Brazil to the African continent, has played an integral part in Brazil’s conceptualization as a nation. Originally despised…