Category: Brazil

  • An Earth-Colored Sea: ‘Race’, Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World Berghahn Books 2003 176 pages index Hardback ISBN: 978-1-57181-607-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57181-608-5 Miguel Vale de Almeida,  Professor of Anthropology Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisbon Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years,…

  • Ethnic Identity Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century – Fourth Edition AltaMira Press June 2006 436 pages 7 x 9 1/4 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7591-0972-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7591-0973-5 Edited by: Lola Romanucci-Ross, Professor Emerita of Family and Preventive Medicine University of California, San Diego De George A. Vos (1922-2010), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of…

  • Brazilians of African descent demand equality Al Jazeera English 2013-07-02 Rachel Levin “Brazil is one of the most socially unequal countries in the world, we’re selling the image that everything is good and we’ll host the World Cup but it’s a country that denies opportunity to its own people.” —Lais Nascimento, student Eighty percent of…

  • Gilberto Freyre: The Reassessment Continues Latin American Research Review Volume 43, Number 1, 2008 pages 208-218 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2008.0002 David Lehmann, Reader in Social Science University of Cambridge Gilberto Freyre e os estudos latino-americanos. Edited by Joshua Lund and Malcolm McNee. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Universidad de Pittsburgh, 2006. Pp. 399. Casa-grande e senzala.…

  • Facing up to the Failure of “Racial Democracy” in Brazil Planète Afrique: Articles on Africa and the African Diaspora Written by Hishaam Aidi for Various Magazines First published: 2001-11-28 Hishaam Aidi, Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs Columbia University What do the Brazilians who call themselves “prieto,” “pardo” and “mestico” have in common?…

  • Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil Cambridge University Press December 1997 412 pages 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521585903 Hardback ISBN: 9780521584555 Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO New York Public Library In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthony W. Marx provocatively links the construction…

  • Hairdos deployed in Brazil’s fight against racism Agence France-Press (AFP) News 2013-05-23 Laura Bonilla RIO DE JANEIRO — Nothing like a good hairdo to fight deeply entrenched racism in one of the world’s emerging economic giants. The tools of battle, such as scissors and conditioners, are being wielded on the outskirts of Rio in a…

  • Internal migration and ethnic division: the case of Palmas, Brazil The Australian Journal of Anthropology Volume 22, Issue 2, August 2011 pages 203–219 DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2011.00134.x Mieke Schrooten Anthropology Department Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Starting from the observation that Brazilian history has led to the development of a very distinct system of race relations, this paper focuses…

  • Community Profiles – Melissa Nobles MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Great Ideas Change the World 2013-04-21 Leda Zimmerman “All societies periodically have to do soul-searching,” says Melissa Nobles, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. With research that illuminates historic episodes of racial and ethnic injustice, Nobles has developed a…

  • Notes on the Racial Contours of Visual Culture in São Paulo, Brazil Flow Volume 17 (2012-12-18) Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan In this three part series of essays I will consider some of the aspects of race and visuality in Brazil. This article will lay out…