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  • Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640

    The African community in colonial Mexico under Spanish and Catholic rule.

  • Desire for Race

    What do people mean when they talk about race? Are they acknowledging a biological fact, a social reality, or a cultural identity? Is race real, or is it merely an illusion? This book brings analytical clarity to one of the most vexed topics in the social sciences today, arguing that race is no more than…

  • Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience

    Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience Journal of Latin American Studies 2005 Number 37, Issue 2 Pages 239–257 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05008990 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester The ideology of mestizaje (mixture) in Latin America has frequently been seen as involving a process of national homogenisation and of hiding a reality of racist…

  • Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women

    Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women Independent Publishing Group September 2002 288 pages, Cloth, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 6 B/W Photos, 1 Chart, 1 Map ISBN: 9780795701139 (0795701136) Agnes Lottering This is a rare, possibly the first, first-person account of being part of the group of mixed-race families who came into existence…

  • Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity

    Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity University of North Carolina Press September 2009 208 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 2 figs., 4 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3177-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5975-9 Beatriz Góis Dantas, Professor Emerita of Anthropology Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil Translated by Stephen Berg Nagô…

  • Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law

    Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law University of North Carolina Press December 2009 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3318-6 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-0727-6 Fay Botham, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies University of Iowa In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United…

  • Exploring the Pastoral Dynamics of Mixed-Race Persons

    Exploring the Pastoral Dynamics of Mixed-Race Persons Pastoral Psychology Volume 52, Number 4 (March 2004) Pages 315-328 DOI: 10.1023/B:PASP.0000016936.79800.89 Peter Yuichi Clark, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, California The number of persons in the United States who identify with more than one racial group is a steadily growing…

  • Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown

    This article explores how religion served as a vessel for one particular language crucial to racial segregation in the South: the language of miscegenation. It was through sex that racial segregation in the South moved from being a local social practice to a part of the divine plan for the world. It was thus through…

  • Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets

    Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition Yale University 1990-02-02 Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor Church of Christ, Yale University A conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor of the Church of Christ, Yale University.…

  • Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad

    Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad Duke University Press October 2004 280 pages 9 b&w photos, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3376-7, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-3376-0 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3388-0, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-3388-3 Aisha Khan, Associate Professor of Anthropology New York University Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a…