Category: Media Archive

  • Brazilian ethnoracial classification and affirmative action policies: Where are we and where do we go? Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity: Should we count, how should we count and why? 2007-12-06 through 2007-12-08 Montreal, Quebec Canada September 2007 12 pages José Luis Petruccelli, Senior Researcher Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Brésil Brazilian society is characterized…

  • Coming Into their Own? The Afro-Latin Struggle for Equality and Recognition Grassroots Development Journal Inter-American Foundation African Descendants and Development (2007) Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and Professor of History and Sociology George Washington University Most Americans have at least a passing familiarity with the history of Afro-Americans in the…

  • Artspeak: Macys misses the boat on celebration of Brazil InsightNews.com 2012-06-12 Irma McClaurin, Ph.D., Culture and Education Editor What a delightful surprise to open my mailbox and see Macys touting a celebration of Brazil.  The merchandise colors are vibrant oranges, yellows, and shocking turquoise.  However, as I looked at the models chosen to represent Brazil,…

  • Malaga Island: A century of shame Maine Sunday Telegram 2012-05-20 Colin Woodard, Staff Writer A new exhibit at the Maine State Museum tells the story of the eviction of Malaga Island’s residents, one of the state’s most disgraceful official acts ever. AUGUSTA — A century ago this spring, Maine Gov. Frederick Plaisted oversaw the destruction…

  • Gay male pornography and the re/de/construction of postcolonial queer identity in Mexico New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film ISSN: 14742756 Volume 8 Issue 2 (November 2010) Gustavo Subero, Independent Researcher Since colonial times, the figuration of the Latin(o) male homosexual has been highly exoticized and troped in western media accounts (Shohat and Stam 1994; Ramirez…

  • In Praise of Michelle Cliff’s Creolite North Carolina State University 2002-11-13 62 pages Quincey Michelle Hyatt A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts—English Focusing on feminism, language, and history, this thesis explores the ways in which the…

  • Racial Democracy and Intermarriage in Brazil and the United States The Latin Americanist Volume 55, Issue 3 (September 2011) pages 45–66 DOI: 10.1111/j.1557-203X.2011.01063.x Jack A. Draper III, Associate Professor of Portuguese University of Missouri “We see a blurring of the old lines.” —Michael Rosenfeld, Regional-Americanist sociologist “The maintenance of interracial barriers and the reproduction of…

  • “You are an Anglo-Indian?” Eurasians and Hybridity and Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 38, Number 2 (April 2003) pages 125-145 DOI: 10.1177/00219894030382008 Loretta Mijares The term “Anglo-Indian”, emerging as early as 1806, originally referred to the British in India. In India today, however, the term is universally understood…

  • A Case of Identity: Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians Ethnohistory Volume 48, Number 3 (Summer 2001) pages 473-494 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-48-3-473 Dave D. Davis University of Southern Maine Throughout the twentieth century, anthropologists and historians have regarded the Houma Indians of southern Louisiana as the descendants of the Houma Indians encountered along the Mississippi River…

  • Re-searching Metis Identity: My Metis Family Story University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon April 2010 200 pages Tara Turner A Thesis Submitted to the College of Graduate Studies and Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Psychology This research explores Metis identity through the use of…