Category: Brazil

  • Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil Social Studies of Science Volume 45, Number 6 (December 2015) pages 816-838 DOI: 10.1177/0306312715610217 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Michael Kent, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology School of Social Sciences University of Manchester This article analyses interrelations between genetic ancestry…

  • Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics Current Anthropology Volume 55, Number 5 (October 2014) pages 497-522 DOI: 10.1086/677945 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Vivette García Deister, Associate Professor Social Studies of Science Laboratory National Autonomous University of Mexico Michael Kent, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology…

  • Towards a Biopolitics of Beauty: Eugenics, Aesthetic Hierarchies and Plastic Surgery in Brazil Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesia Volume 24, Issue 4, 2015 Special Issue: Visual Culture and Violence in Contemporary Mexico DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2015.1091296 Alvaro Jarrín, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts This article provides…

  • Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels Bucknell University Press 2015 252 pages ISBN 9781611486209 Earl E. Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt, Tennessee This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that…

  • A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism Duke University Press 2001 232 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2210-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2239-9 Roberto Schwarz Translated by: John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work…

  • Daniel, G. Reginald. Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2012. Print. [McNee Review] ellipsis (now Journal of Lusophone Studies) Volume 13 (2015) pages 255-257 Malcolm K. McNee, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the…

  • The Deceptive Realism of Machado de Assis. A Dissenting Interpretation of Dom Casmurro Francis Cairns Publications 1984 215 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-905205-19-9 John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool The Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839, is regarded as the greatest Latin-American novelist of the…

  • G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), pp. xi + 338, \$74.95, hb. [Gledson Review] Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 47 / Issue 03 / August 2015 pages 607-608 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X15000528 John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool G. Reginald Daniel,…

  • Inclusion Policies and the Future of Racial Relations in Brazil The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016-07-10 through 2016-07-14 Vienna, Austria Tuesday, 2016-07-12, 09:30 CEST (Local Time) Room: Hörsaal 34 Oral Presentation Valter Silvério, Associate Professor of Sociology Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos,…

  • What do Brazilians look like? Eye on Brazil: Observations of an Ex-Expat 2015-05-23 Sabrina Gledhill, PhD I recently came across an article that has sparked all kinds of responses online and the time has come to add one of my own. Titled Future Humans Will All Look Brazilian, Researcher Says it naturally caught my eye!…