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  • A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980

    A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980 Duke University Press 2007 256 pages 29 illus., 8 tables, 1 map Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4081-2  Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4060-7 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature…

  • Contact of Races in Brazil

    Contact of Races in Brazil Social Forces Volume 19, Number 4 (May, 1941) pages 533-538 DOI: 10.2307/2571211 Arthur Ramos University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL, as well as other American countries, was originally a land of conquests; the growth of its population has developed by the contact or confluence of European settlers with the…

  • Zumbi dos Palmares College encourages Afro-Brazilians to study

    Zumbi dos Palmares College encourages Afro-Brazilians to study Infosurhoy.com 2012-04-27 InfoSurHoy.com is a one-stop source of news and information about, and for, Latin America and the Caribbean. It is sponsored by the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM). Thiago Borges Opened in 2004 in São Paulo, the institution reserves 50% of its enrollment for people of…

  • Affirmative Action in Brazil: Slavery’s Legacy

    Affirmative Action in Brazil: Slavery’s Legacy The Economist Americas View: The Americas 2013-04-26 H.J. São Paulo TO SUM up recent research predicting a mixed-race future for humanity, biologist Stephen Stearns of Yale University turns to an already intermingled nation. In a few centuries, he says, we will all “look like Brazilians”. Brazil shares with the…

  • Race, Policy, and Culture: An Identity Crisis for Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil

    Race, Policy, and Culture: An Identity Crisis for Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil Melissa S. Creary, MPH, Doctoral Candidate Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts Emory University Professor Howard Kushner, Chair Professor Jeffrey Lesser, Co-Chair Abstract of Dissertation Prospectus In 2001, Cândida and Altair, a married couple, started a national organization to increase the rights of…

  • The Puzzling Whiteness of Brazilian Politicians

    The Puzzling Whiteness of Brazilian Politicians Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Center for Latin American Studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 2012 pages 30-32 Jean Spencer, Outreach and Publications Coordinator Center for Latin American Studies Is Brazil really a racial democracy? The idea of racial democracy, originally put forth by the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto…

  • Racialisation in Brazil [Karina Round]

    Racialisation in Brazil [Karina Round] Mapping Global Racisms Project (2012- ) University of Leeds Working Papers 10 pages Karina Round This paper is going to explore the processes of racialisation in Brazil, a country were race is supposed to be irrelevant. Racialisation is the dynamic and complex process through which racial categories, concepts and divisions…

  • A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans

    A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans Miami Herald 2007-06-10 through 2007-06-24 In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful civil and cultural rights movement flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garffuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not…

  • The Elusive Variability of Race

    The question of race is, at its core, a questioning of humanity itself.  In various eras and locales, race has been marked by color of skin, texture of hair, dress, musical prowess, digital dexterity, rote memorization, mien, mannerisms, disease, athletic ability, capacity to write poetry, sense of rhythm, sobriety, childlike cheerfulness, animal anger, language, continent…

  • “Look at Her Hair”: The Body Politics of Black Womanhood in Brazil

    This article examines Brazilian ideals of female beauty and explores their impact on Black women’s subjective experiences. The analysis focuses on hair as a key site for investigating how Black women’s bodies and identities are marked by Brazilian discourses on race and gender. Despite Brazil’s image as a “racial democracy,” derogatory images of Black women…