Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Blackness in Argentina: Jazz, Tango and Race Before Perón* Past and Present Volume 216, Issue 1 (August 2012) pages 215-245 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gts008 Matthew B. Karush, Associate Professor of History George Mason University On the question of race and nation, the dominant Latin American paradigm has never applied to Argentina. In Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere, twentieth-century…

  • Brazil’s New Racial Politics Lynne Rienner Publishers 2009 251 pages ISBN: 978-1-58826-666-8 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Political Science University of South Florida Gladys L. Mitchell (Gladys Mitchell-Walthour), Assistant Professor of Political Science Denison University, Granville, Ohio As the popular myth of racial equality in Brazil crumbles beneath the weight of current grassroots…

  • Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America New York University Press November 2012 272 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814765463 Paper ISBN: 9780814765470 Antonio López, Assistant Professor of English George Washington University In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a…

  • Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan University Of Hawai‘i Press May 2010 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3344-2 Taku Suzuki, Assistant Professor of International Studies Denison University, Granville, Ohio Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of a Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century (Imperial…

  • American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South Liverpool University Press May 2012 256 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781846317538 Edited by: Celia Britton, Professor of French and Francophone Studies University College London Martin Munro, Professor of French and Francophone Studies Florida State University The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are…

  • The aesthetic escape hatch: carnaval, blocos afro and the mutations of baianidade under the signs of globalisation and re-Africanisation Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research Volume 5, Issue 2, 1999 pages 65-98 DOI: 10.1080/13260219.1999.10431798 Piers Armstrong Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil This article examines the notion of baianidade, the cultural cosmovision traditionally associated with…

  • The author presents a comparative analysis of the histories of racial/color categorization in American and Brazilian censuses and shows that racial (and color) categories have appeared in these censuses because of shifting ideas about race and the enduring power of these ideas as organizers of political, economic, and social life in both countries.

  • Measures of “Race” and the Analysis of Racial Inequality in Brazil Social Science Research Available online 2012-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.06.006 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeronimo O. Muniz, Assistant Professor of Sociology Federal University of Minas Gerais Quantitative analyses of…

  • Frantz Fanon’s reception in Brazil Penser aujourd’hui à partir de Frantz Fanon, Actes du colloque Fanon (Symposium on Frantz Fanon) Université Paris 7 February 2008 Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo, Brazil Frantz Fanon is a central figure in cultural, post-colonial and African-American studies, whether in the United States, Africa…

  • Interview with Brazilian Journalist and Activist Daniela Gomes The Husslington Post 2011-12-04 Amil Cook, Correspondent In this interview, Husslington Post correspondent, Amil Cook, goes in depth with journal/scholar/activist Daniela Gomes about her fight against racism in Brazil. This is the first installment in what we hope will become a series of interviews by Amil. How…