Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Brazil
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Miscegenation, Racialization and Gender (Mestiçagem, Racialização e Gênero) Sociologias Number 21 (Porto Alegre Jan./June 2009) pages 94-120 DOI: 10.1590/S1517-45222009000100006 ISSN 1517-4522 Rosely Gomes Costa, Pós-doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (Espanha) This paper reflects on the paradox of a mestizo Brazil and the close relationship…
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Ciphering Nations: Performing Identity in Brazil and the Caribbean University of Minnesota June 2011 197 pages Naomi Pueo Wood, Assistant Professor of Spanish The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF…
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Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America Duke University Press 2009 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4401-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4420-9 Edited by: Matthew D. O’Hara, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz Andrew Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with…
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‘Pretos’ and ‘Pardos’ between the Cross and the Sword: Racial Categories in Seventeenth Century Brazil European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 80 (April 2006) Constructing Ethnic Labels pages 43-55 Hebe Mattos, Professor of History and Coordinator of the LABHOI/UFF Memory of Slavery Oral History Project University Federal Fluminense, Brazil This paper discusses…
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Color, Race, and Genomic Ancestry in Brazil: Dialogues between Anthropology and Genetics Current Anthropology Volume 50, Number 6 (2009) pages 787-819 DOI: 10.1086/644532 Ricardo Ventura Santos, Professor of Biological Anthropology and Public Health Oswaldo Cruz Foundation also Associate professor of Anthropology National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Peter H. Fry, Professor Federal University of Rio…
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Brazil: Census “Reveals” Majority of Population is Black or Mixed Race Global Voices 2011-11-29 Written by: Paula Góes Translated by: Maisie Fitzpatrick [All links lead to Portuguese language pages except when otherwise noted.] For the first time in Brazilian history, the national census has shown that the majority of the population, 50.7% of a total…