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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Capturing complexity in the United States: which aspects of race matter and when?

    Capturing complexity in the United States: which aspects of race matter and when? Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 8, 2012 Special Issue:Accounting for ethnic and racial diversity: the challenge of enumeration pages 1484-1502 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.607504 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University The experience of race in the United States is shaped…

  • 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…

  • Shades of Passing (AAS 340 / ENG 391 / AMS 340)

    Shades of Passing (AAS 340 / ENG 391 / AMS 340) Princeton University Fall 2012-2013 Anne A. Cheng, Professor of English and African American Studies This course studies the trope of passing in 20th century American literary and cinematic narratives in an effort to re-examine the crisis of identity that both produces and confounds acts…

  • Introduction: Passing, Imitations, Crossings

    Introduction: Passing, Imitations, Crossings Humanities Research Volume XVI. Number 1 (2010) Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University When it was revealed that Anglo-Australian writer Helen Darville had passed as Ukrainian to publish a novel about the Holocaust, there was much public and scholarly debate about the…

  • The Negro in Washington: A Study in Race Amalgamation

    The chief interest of the author in the Negro problem has centered about the matter of racial intermixture—the Mulatto problem—and most of his writings have had to do with this evil.

  • Mixed Messenger

    Mixed Messenger The New York Times 2008-03-23 Peggy Orenstein A few weeks ago, while stuck at the Chicago airport with my 4-year-old daughter, I struck up a conversation with a woman sitting in the gate area. After a time, she looked at my girl — who resembles my Japanese-American husband — commented on her height…