Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Afroargentines The Argentina Independent 2007-03-23 Laura Balfour As a descendant of two slaves, Maria Lamadrid has a hard time biting her tongue when airport officials think her Argentine passport is not real because ‘there are no blacks in Argentina’.   And that was in 2002.   The 25th of March marks the landmark 200th anniversary…

  • The reawakening of Afro-Argentine culture Global Post 2009-08-30 Anil Mundra Descendants of slaves are starting to assert their identity but it’s not easy in South America’s whitest country. BUENOS AIRES — “Liberty has no color” read the signs held outside a Buenos Aires city courthouse. “Arrested for having the wrong face,” and “Suspected of an…

  • Indian Lords, Hispanic Gentlemen: The Salazars of Colonial Tlaxcala The Americas Volume 69, Number 1, July 2012 pages 1-36 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2012.0060 Peter B. Villella, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro In 1773, a Mexico City expert in gold embroidery named don José Mariano Sánchez de Salazar Zitlalpopoca petitioned for a license to…

  • Mulattos of St. Domingo General Advertiser Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wednesday, 1792-03-14 (Number 455) Souce: Professor of History John Garrigus (University of Texas, Arlington) Are the motley breed of landholders, gentlemen adventurers, parsimonious merchants, factors, clerks, managers, and plantation-overseers from Europe. The progenitors of this yellow tribe were generally persons who came out from France and other…

  • The Dougla in Trinidad’s Consciousness History in Action: Online Journal of The University of the West Indies (St. Augustine. Trinidad and Tobago) Dept. of History Volume 2, Number 1 (April 2011) 7 pages ISSN: 2221-7886 Feme Louanne Regis University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad is a complex multi-ethnic society where…

  • Latin America and mixed heritage The Prisma: The Multicultural Newspaper Westwood Hill, London, United Kingdom 2012-08-27 Claudio Chipana (Translated by Viv Griffiths) “…we are neither Indian, nor European, but a species lying somewhere in between the legitimate owners of the land and the Spanish usurpers…” Simon Bolivar (Letter from Jamaica). People of mixed heritage, mestizos,…

  • Roots: Saint Lucia’s Hindu Legacy Hinduism Today October/November/December 2012 Gajanan Nataraj Saint Lucia I am a Saint Lucian citizen. I was born in the US Virgin Islands and lived briefly on the mainland (USA), but for the better part of 23 years I was raised on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. I am roughly two-quarters…

  • By unflinchingly charting the intersections of public and personal history, “Thrall” explores the historical, cultural, and social forces—across time and space—that determine the roles consigned to a mixed-race daughter and her white father.

  • Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities The New York Times 2012-08-30 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools…

  • Caribbean Fashion Week: Remodeling Beauty in “Out of Many One” Jamaica Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture Volume 14, Number 3, September 2010 pages 387-404 DOI: 10.2752/175174110X12712411520377 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica The elitist Jamaican motto, “Out of Many, One People,“ privileges…