Category: Caribbean/Latin America

  • Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832 American Historical Review Volume 111, Number 2, 2006 pages 336-361, 44 paragraphs Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio During the Age of Revolution, nations in the Americas faced the quandary of how to reconcile slavery and racial discrimination with…

  • African-Scottish families A North East Story: Scotland, Africa and Slavery in the Caribbean 2008 This exhibition has been organised by an Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Bicentenary Committee to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Britain’s outlawing of the African slave trade in 1807. It follows on from a service of commemoration and a series of public lectures…

  • A 30 Percent of Mixed Race Component in Argentina’s Population Agentina Investiga: Divulgación y Noticas Universitarias Universidad Maimónides Facultad de Ciencias Médicas 2012-04-09 Adrián Giacchino Departamento de Prensa Universidad Maimónides The research of a team formed by anthropologists, biologists, biochemists and archeologists proves that the autochthonous contribution in Argentina’s population might be of a 30%.…

  • Affirmative action backed in largely black Brazil Associated Press 2012-05-04 Bradley Brooks SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across this nation, which has more blacks than any country outside Africa yet where a severe gap in education equality between races persists. The…

  • The Forgotten Diaspora The Official Gateway to Scotland 2008 Geoff Palmer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences Heriot-Watt University I was born in Jamaica in 1940, the largest British island in the Caribbean. I emigrated to London in 1955 to join my mother and earn a living. She had emigrated in 1948. In…

  • A Classic Study of the History of Caribbean Women H-Caribbean Reviews, H-Net Reviews December 2008 Barbara Bush Lucille Mathurin Mair. A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. 496 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-976-640-166-5; (paper), ISBN 978-976-640-178-8. I first encountered Lucille Mathurin Mair’s work during the 1970s…

  • Constructing Afro-Cuban Womanhood: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Republican-Era Cuba, 1902-1958 University of Texas, Austin 343 pages August 2011 Takkara Keosha Brunson Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation explores continuities…

  • BLACK, TRIGUEÑO, WHITE…? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 2 (2005) pages 267-285 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050186 Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College, City University of New York The use of U.S.-oriented racial categories in the 2000 decennial census conducted by…

  • A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844 University of The West Indies Press 2006 400 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-976-640-178-8 Author: Lucille Mathurin Mair (1925-2009) Edited by: Hilary McD. Beckles, Principal University of The West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados Verene A. Shepherd, University Director Centre for Gender & Dev Std-RC: Centre Research/Teaching…

  • Brazil’s top court backs racial quotas in universities The Australian 2012-05-01 BRAZIL’s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that racial quotas used in universities are constitutional and are meant to redress inequalities stemming from centuries of slavery. The ruling issued by the 10-member court concerned the case of the University of Brasilia which in 2004 set…