Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • ‘Passing’ in colonial Colombia Havard University Gazette 2009-02-12 Corydon Ireland, Harvard News Office Racial categories today are self-evident — part of what social scientists might call “socially constructed discourse.” Contemporary people of one race are aware of what other races look like, as well as where they themselves belong in the racial scheme of things.…

  • Peter Tosh did Not Joke with Words The Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica, West Indies 2012-10-14 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica Shortly after Peter Tosh made his last concert appearance in December 1983, I did an interview with him that was published in Pulse magazine. One of…

  • Barbosa made Brazil’s first black Supreme Court leader BBC News 2012-10-10 The judge overseeing a major corruption trial in Brazil has been appointed president of the Supreme Court, the first black person to hold the post. Judge Joaquim Barbosa, who was born into a poor family, has been praised for his judicial independence. He will…

  • Travels of self-discovery: African heritage in Mexico American Observer: American University’s Graduate Journalism Magazine American University, Washington, D.C. 2009-11-12 Carmen Castro Cesareo Moreno clearly remembers his family visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, in 2004. He was on a mission to learn more about his Mexican heritage. Moreno told his uncle he wanted to learn more about…

  • CUNY DSI Monograph Documents Dominican Heritage of First Settler The City University of New York City College 2012-10-04 Juan Rodríguez, native of Santo Domingo, comes to New York in 1613 and stays when his ship sails to Holland The first non-native to live in what is now New York City was a black or mixed…

  • Ian Thomson: Jamaica was modern before Britain The Independent London, England 2012-10-04 Miguel Cullen To mark Black History Month the author of “Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica” talks to Miguel Cullen about the ways Jamaica is punching above its weight Jamaica is a country that exceeds its limitations. For example India’s GDP is 180…

  • Blood Flowed Here Before Water Did Trinidad Express 2012-09-14 Jan Westmaas The writer continues his series on Peru and South Africa after visits to these countries in July and August I’ve just read this morning in the daily press a story about Spanish energy company Repsol’s major oil and natural gas find in the Peruvian…

  • The Fifth Figure Bloodaxe Books 2006-09-28 80 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1852247320; ISBN-13: 978-1852247324 Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze is a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a ‘one-woman festival’. The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence mixing poetry and prose which chronicles the lives of…

  • The colour of money in multiracial Jamaica The Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica, West Indies 2012-09-23 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica On a flight from Miami several years ago, I sat next to a little girl who seemed to be about 10 or so years of age.…

  • Argentina: Land of the Vanishing Blacks Ebony Magazine October 1973 pages 74-85 Era Bell Thompson Once outnumbering whites five to one, blacks were absorbed and inundated by massive immigration “If you are looking for black people, why,” they asked helpfully, “did you come to Argentina? Why don’t you go to Brazil?” Well, I had been…