Category: Media Archive

  • Blonde Beauties and Black Booties: Racial Hierarchies in Brazil Ms. Magazine Blog 2010-06-11 Erica Williams, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Model scouts strategically target towns in Southern Brazil to “find the right genetic cocktail of German and Italian ancestry, perhaps with some Russian or other Slavic blood thrown in,” explains Alexei Barrionuevo…

  • The tan from Ipanema: Freyre, Morenidade, and the cult of the body in Rio De Janeiro Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies October 2009 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Art Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada She says she has brown skin, and a feverish body And inside the chest, love of Brazil…

  • Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America Black in Latin America Public Broadcasting Service April 2011 Gates discusses his new project in this interview from the PBS site. First, could you talk a little bit about this project? I conceived of this as a trilogy of documentary series that…

  • Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought Duke University Press 1974 334 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-1320-5 Thomas E. Skidmore, Emeritus Professor of History Brown University Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore’s intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in…

  • Making the invisible visible: Experiences of multiracial late adolescents/young adults with three or more racial backgrounds The Wright Institute May 2011 182 pages Publication Number: AAT 3459694 ISBN: 9781124715537 Frandelia Sharmila Moore A dissertation submitted to the Wright Institute School of Psychology, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Psychology Research…

  • 20 years after riots, Crown Heights is now a mixed racial haven New York Daily News 2011-08-14 Simone Weichselbaum, Staff Writer Crown Heights has become a mixed race mecca. The Brooklyn neighborhood infamous for the 1991 riot between blacks and Jews has the second-most residents who identify as being both black and white, the latest…

  • Scouting the City for Her Characters The New York Times 2011-08-19 John Leland A Summer afternoon in Chelsea, and Sarah Jones was on a recon mission, searching for… she did not know what, exactly. An accent, for starters. An ethnic wild card. “Hybridity,” she said, using a word she uses often to describe her field…

  • The Place of Miscegenation Laws within Historical Scholarship about Slavery The Literary Lawyer: A Forum for the Legal and Literary Communities 2011-05-17 Allen Porter Mendenhall The following post appeared at The Literary Table. Miscegenation laws, also known as anti-miscegenation laws, increasingly have attracted the attention of scholars of slavery over the last half-century. Scholarship on…

  • Blood relations: The cultural work of miscegenation in nineteenth-century American literature University of Pennsylvania 1999, 282 pages Publication Number: AAT 9937719 ISBN: 9780599389762 Leigh Holladay Edwards, Associate Professor of English Florida State University A DISSERTATION in English Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree…

  • Somebody Always Singing You University Press of Mississippi 1997 160 pages ISBN: 0878059814 (9780878059812) Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees The story of a multi-racial woman coming to understand her identity As the child of African-American and Native American parents, Kaylynn TwoTrees grew up hearing herself called “half breed” and “mixed blood,” terms which now, after many transforming…