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Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States

2011-12-12

Carl Degler’s 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology.
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother

2011-12-11

A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother Riverhead an Imprint of Penguin Press 2011-05-03 384 pages 9.25 x 6.25in Hardcover ISBN: 9781594487972 Paperback ISBN: 9781594485596 Janny Scott A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama—his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively…
Bearing the burden of whiteness: the implications of racial self-identification for multiracial adolescents’ school belonging and academic achievement

2011-12-10

Bearing the burden of whiteness: the implications of racial self-identification for multiracial adolescents’ school belonging and academic achievement Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 747-773 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.628998 Ruth Burke Department of Sociology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Previous literature on…
Does Whitening Happen? Distinguishing between Race and Color Labels in an African-Descended Community in Peru

2011-12-10

This article explores how race and color labels are used to describe people in an Afro-Peruvian community. This article is based on analyses of 88 interviews and 18 months of fieldwork in an African-descended community in Peru. The analyses of these data reveal that, if we consider race and color to be conceptually distinct, there…
Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet

2011-12-10

Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet American Literature Volume 79, Number 1 (March 2007) pages 85-112 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-2006-072 Stephanie Li, Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester In 1850, Mary Walker, a free woman of color, filed a petition in the Fourth District Court of New Orleans to enslave herself…
Not black, not white: just the opposite. Culture, race and national identity in Brazil

2011-12-10

The search to define Brazil and Brazilians by colour, more specifically by a miscegenation so extreme that it appears exceptional, is longstanding. Mid-nineteenth century naturalists that visited the country from Europe were astounded by the lush vegetation, the wide variety of fauna, and another phenomena – a type of unprecedented laboratory of humans and their…
The Value of Intersectional Comparative Analysis to the “Post-Racial” Future of Critical Race Theory: A Brazil-U.S. Comparative Case Study

2011-12-10

This Commentary Article aims to illustrate the value of comparative law to the jurisprudence of Critical Race Theory (CRT), particularly with reference to the CRT project of deconstructing the mystique of “postracialism.” The central thesis of the Article is that the dangerous seductions of a U.S. ideology of “post-racialism” are more clearly identified when subject…
Miscegenation, Racialization and Gender (Mestiçagem, Racialização e Gênero)

2011-12-10

Miscegenation, Racialization and Gender (Mestiçagem, Racialização e Gênero) Sociologias Number 21 (Porto Alegre Jan./June 2009) pages 94-120 DOI: 10.1590/S1517-45222009000100006 ISSN 1517-4522 Rosely Gomes Costa, Pós-doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (Espanha) This paper reflects on the paradox of a mestizo Brazil and the close relationship…
Ciphering Nations: Performing Identity in Brazil and the Caribbean

2011-12-10

Ciphering Nations: Performing Identity in Brazil and the Caribbean University of Minnesota June 2011 197 pages Naomi Pueo Wood, Assistant Professor of Spanish The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF…
Intimate encounters, Racial Frontiers: Stateless GI babies in South Korea and the United States, 1953-1965

2011-12-09

Intimate encounters, Racial Frontiers: Stateless GI babies in South Korea and the United States, 1953-1965 University of Minnesota June 2010 239 pages Bongsoo Park A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY This dissertation explores…

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