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  • Myths of Racial Democracy: Cuba, 1900-1912

    Myths of Racial Democracy: Cuba, 1900-1912 Latin American Research Review Volume 34, Number 3 (1999) pages 39-73 Alejandro de la Fuente, UCIS Research Professor of History University of Pittsburgh This article reviews the recent literature on the so-called myths of racial democracy in Latin America and challenges current critical interpretations of the social effects of…

  • Obama and the black wave: Deconstructing myths, building strategies

    Obama and the black wave: Deconstructing myths, building strategies Pambazuka News: Pan-African Voices for Freedom and Justice 2009-02-19 (Issue 420) Raquel Luciana de Souza Having closely followed Barack Obama’s electoral success, Raquel Luciana de Souza considers the prospects for a presidential candidate of African descent within the South American giant of Brazil. Scrutinising the historical…

  • Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil 1888–1988

    For much of the twentieth century Brazil enjoyed an international reputation as a “racial democracy,” but that image has been largely undermined in recent decades by research suggesting the existence of widespread racial inequality.

  • Shifting Discourses: Exploring the Tensions between the Myth of Racial Democracy And the Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil

    Shifting Discourses: Exploring the Tensions between the Myth of Racial Democracy And the Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil Center for Latin American Social Policy – CLASPO Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies Summer Research Report University of Texas at Austin September 2005 29 pages Raquel Luciana de Souza 1. INTRODUCTION Are the…

  • Black into White in Nineteenth Century Spanish America: Afro-American Assimilation in Argentina and Costa Rica

    Black into White in Nineteenth Century Spanish America: Afro-American Assimilation in Argentina and Costa Rica Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Volume 5, Number 1 (May 1984) pages 34-49 DOI: 10.1080/01440398408574864 Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mout Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts In his masterful study of…

  • Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill

    Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill Associated Press 2012-08-08 Stan Lehman San Paulo—The Brazilian Senate has approved an affirmative action bill that reserves half the spots in federal universities for high school graduates of public schools, and distributes them according to the racial makeup of each state. The Senate’s news agency says the bill that…

  • Liberating Blackness: The Theme of Whitening in Two Colombian Short Stories

    Liberating Blackness: The Theme of Whitening in Two Colombian Short Stories Callaloo Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 475-493 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2012.0074 Laurence E. Prescott, Professor Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Pennsylvania State University Hablaré del físico de los negros, casi como de carrera. Tienen dos cosas repugnantes para no gustar, el color negro…

  • Who Is Jamaica?

    Who Is Jamaica? The New York Times 2012-08-05 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica DURING last week’s independence festivities, I took out my prized commemorative plate. It was a gift from the mother of a long-ago boyfriend who, incomprehensibly, complained constantly that his mother loved me…

  • Indigenous Nationalities and the Mestizo Dilemma

    Indigenous Nationalities and the Mestizo Dilemma Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-07-24 Duane Champagne, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles Mestizo. Métis. Mixed bloods. Though clearly different, all these terms are used to racially classify people with Indian ancestry. However, the definitions vary—and none is wholly satisfactory.   Part of the problem is…

  • HIST 387 004: Inventing the Nation in Latin America

    HIST 387 004: Inventing the Nation in Latin America George Mason University Spring 2012 Matt Karush, Associate Professor of History Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Latin Americans have struggled to define themselves and their nations. This quest for identity has involved governments, intellectuals, and artists, but also ordinary men and women. And the results…