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  • CERS hosts Critical Mixed Race Studies postgraduate symposium

    CERS hosts Critical Mixed Race Studies postgraduate symposium School of Sociology and Social Policy Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies University of Leeds 2013-08-08 Peter Edwards, Faculty Web Development Officer Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) held its first interdisciplinary, international postgraduate symposium on the 18th May 2013 entitled…

  • Study analyzes ambiguities in the works of Aluísio Azevedo

    Study analyzes ambiguities in the works of Aluísio Azevedo Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2011-06-08 Karina Toledo Agência FAPESP —The Mulatto, by Aluísio Azevedo, is a title that refers to the collective human state. It does not mention a character or a specific situation, but rather a human category that is…

  • About Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C.

    About Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C. Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C. 2013-06-18 Zebulon Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York The idea for this blog came from several discussions with students and young people who come from mixed-race backgrounds, especially so-called “white and black”…

  • A Realidade da Ficção: Ambiguidades Literárias e Sociais em ‘O Mulato’ de Aluísio Azevedo (The Reality of Fiction: Literary and social ambiguities in “The Mulatto” by Aluísio Azevedo)

    The synthesis of this work Estramanho Rodrigo de Almeida should be added the happy choice (as it should be) an epigraph taken from the work of Dercy Ribeiro: “Tour between the two conflicting worlds – that of the black, which he rejects, and white, the rejects – the mulatto humanizes the drama to be two,…

  • Empathetic eye

    Empathetic eye Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2011-06-08 Fábio de Castro Agência FAPESP – In 1865, an expedition led by Swiss natural scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) of Harvard University travelled around Brazil for 15 months to study the country. Among the voluntary collectors that participated in the expedition was a…

  • Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Diaries, Letters, and Drawings, 1865-1866

    Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Diaries, Letters, and Drawings, 1865-1866 Harvard University Press November 2006 230 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 38 line drawings; 10 black and white halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674021334 Maria Helena P.T. Machado, Professor of History University of São Paulo In 1865, twenty-three-year-old William James began his studies at the…

  • Obama rodeo clown incident illustrates nation’s continued racial divide

    Obama rodeo clown incident illustrates nation’s continued racial divide The Washington Post 2013-08-15 Philip Rucker SEDALIA, Mo. — As some people at the Missouri State Fair see it, the rodeo incident last weekend in which a ringleader taunted a clown wearing a mask of President Obama and played with his lips as a bull charged…

  • Japanese migration to Brazil was part of a peaceful expansionist policy

    Japanese migration to Brazil was part of a peaceful expansionist policy Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2012-07-25 Elton Alisson USP historian Shozo Motoyama makes the above assertion in a study on the first stage of Japanese immigration to Brazil, which covers the process of cultural integration Agência FAPESP – Japanese…

  • Masculinity and whiteness in the construction of the Brazilian Republic

    Masculinity and whiteness in the construction of the Brazilian Republic Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the São Paulo Research Foundation 2013-06-12 José Tadeu Arantes Sexual discipline and whitening of the population were the guidelines of the conservative modernization promoted by the elite, affirms study Agência FAPESP – Masculinity and whiteness were the ideals of the…

  • A big fish or a small pond? Framing effects in percentages

    A big fish or a small pond? Framing effects in percentages Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Volume 122, Issue 2, November 2013 pages 190–199 DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.07.003 Meng Li, Assistant Professor Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences University of Colorado Denver Gretchen B. Chapman, Professor of Psychology Rutgers University This paper presents three studies that…