Category: Brazil

  • Hernández is the first author to thoroughly consider the role of customary law in erecting and sustaining racial hierarchies

  • Denying Brazil (Review) African Film Festival: More than just a festival Essays & Articles 2002 John D. H. Downing, Professor Emeritus of International Communication Southern Illinois University The documentary, Denying Brazil, is a plain-speaking and fascinating unmasking of the white racism endemic in Brazilian television’s most popular genre, which in the USA we would call…

  • The concept and measurement of race and their relationship to public health: a review focused on Brazil and the United States Cadernos de Saúde Pública/Reports in Public Health Volume 20, Number 3, Rio de Janeiro, (May/June 2004) pages 660-678 DOI: 10.1590/S0102-311X2004000300003 Claudia Travassos Departamento de Informações em Saúde Centro de Informação Científica e Tecnológica, Fundação…

  • Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States Duke University Press 2009 408 pages 19 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4440-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4426-1 Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States…

  • Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic The Journal of Transnational American Studies ISSN 1940-0764 Volume 1, Issue 1 (2009) Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, the forthcoming book from which this article is excerpted, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the…

  • Family Stories, Local Practices, and the Struggle for Social Improvement in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Latin America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 25: Conference on Latin American History 3 Thursday, 2012-01-03: 13:00-15:00 CST (Local Time) Conti Room (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Matt D. O’Hara, University…

  • Hue & Phenotype: Colorism… Even More Complex 50shadesofblack.com | Fueling Conversation 2012-09-21 Dash Harris In.a.Dash.Media I have interviewed over 100 people for this docu-series and recently I’ve come across more and more interviewees who ask me about my background. I’ve had a handful of Caribbeans ask me if I were ‘dougla,’ a person of Indian…

  • Brazil’s Affirmative-Action Quotas: Progress? The Chronicle of Higher Education 2012-11-05 Ibram H. Rogers, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies State University of New York, Albany Brazil recently passed what was probably the most sweeping affirmative-action law in the modern history of higher education. While the livelihood of affirmative action in the United States is in the…

  • Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship Journal of Black Studies Volume 43, Number 8 (November 2012) pages 847-871 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712461794 Niyi Afolabi, Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Between the radicalism of Black Brazilian movements of the 1980s, an aftermath of the negation and rejection of the myth of…

  • An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.