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  • “Our America” That is Not One: Transnational Black Atlantic Disclosures in Nicolás Guillén and Langston Hughes

    “Our America” That is Not One: Transnational Black Atlantic Disclosures in Nicolás Guillén and Langston Hughes Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture Volume 22, Number 3 (Fall 2000) pages 87-113 DOI: 10.1353/dis.2000.0007 Monika Kaup, Associate Professor of English University of Washington In the past two decades, discontent with the exclusions operative in…

  • Racial Democracy in the Americas: A Latin and U.S. Comparison

    Racial Democracy in the Americas: A Latin and U.S. Comparison Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology Volume 35, Number 6 (November 2004) pages 749-762 DOI: 10.1177/0022022104270118 Yesilernis Peña University of California, Los Angeles Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology Harvard University Mark Sawyer, Professor of Political Science University of California, Los Angeles The “racial democracy” (Iberian exceptionalism) thesis…

  • Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831

    Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 University of Pittsburgh Press August 2007 216 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 9780822959656 Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Myths of Harmony examines a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most…

  • Group Dominance and the Myth of Racial Democracy: Antiracism Attitudes in Brazil

    Group dominance perspectives contend that ideologies are central to the production and reproduction of racial oppression by their negative affect on attitudes toward antiracism initiatives. The Brazilian myth of racial democracy frequently is framed in this light, evoked as a racist ideology to explain an apparent lack of confrontation of racial inequality.

  • Fact and Myth: Discovering a Racial Problem in Brazil

    This paper examines prevalent attitudes towards race in Brazil’s mutiracial society. The author notes that, while there is a considerable literature on slavery and the struggle for abolition, relatively little work has been done on race in Brazil today even though color continues to correlate highly with social stratification.

  • The Dialogue About “Racial Democracy” Among African-American and Afro-Brazilian Literatures

    The Dialogue About “Racial Democracy” Among African-American and Afro-Brazilian Literatures University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2008 262 pages Isabel Cristina Rodrigues Ferreira A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of…

  • Black Hole

    Black Hole Brazzill November 1999 Kathleen Bond, Missioner Maryknoll Lay Missioners It is often said that Brazilians live under a racial democracy, meaning that in Brazil miscegenation has created a cultural mélange in which all races are equally valued. Nothing is farther from the truth. During the elections of 1997, Margarida Pereira da Silva was…

  • Racial Democracy in Brazilian Marriage: Toward a Typology of Negro-White Intermarriage in Five Brazilian Communities

    Racial Democracy in Brazilian Marriage: Toward a Typology of Negro-White Intermarriage in Five Brazilian Communities The American Catholic Sociological Review Volume 21, Number 2 (Summer, 1960) pages 146-164 Austin J. Staley, O. S. B. Revised version of paper read at the Twenty-first Annual Convention of the American Catholic Sociological Society, Mundelein College, Chicago, Illinois, August…

  • Ambivalent examples: The multiple Creole subjects of Spanish American nineteenth-century narrative

    Ambivalent examples: The multiple Creole subjects of Spanish American nineteenth-century narrative University of Pennsylvania 2006 371 pages Publication Number: AAT 3225427 ISBN: 9780542797194 Elisabeth L. Austin This dissertation proposes a paradigm for 19th-century Spanish American Creole subjectivity that considers it to be a multiple, unstable construct rather than a coherent or constant entity. From this…

  • Obama and Myths of Racial Democracy

    Obama and Myths of Racial Democracy NACLA Report North American Congress on Latin America 2008-11-17 Marisol LeBrón Political pundits have celebrated president-elect Barack Obama’s sweeping and historic victory as evidence that the United States has taken an initial step toward a “post-racial” or “colorblind” society. In a recent Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, Shelby Steele provocatively…