Category: Brazil

  • AAS 310: Mixed Race And The Media University of Texas, Austin Center for Asian American Studies Spring 2012 Alexander Cho, Assistant Instructor What is “race,” and what does it mean to be “mixed”? How is mass media responsible for channeling fears, desires, and anxieties about “mixed” bodies? Why are “mixed race” bodies suddenly desirable and…

  • CLS 413: Comparative Studies in Theme: Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation Northwestern University Winter 2012 César Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies In this seminar we will discuss how and why late 19th-century and early 20th-century fiction often represented a crisis in models of biological reproduction. We will investigate how anxieties regarding miscegenation and degeneration impacted this…

  • Race as a social question in Brazil The Rice Institute Pamphlet Volume 27, Number 4 (October 1940) pages 218-241 Carlos M. Delgado de Carvalho (1884-1990) I. ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF THE BRAZILIAN POPULATION At first sight, it seems that race could be considered as the capital element of the biological aspect of society. Race is a…

  • Between black and miscegenated population groups: sickle cell anemia and sickle cell trait in Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos Volume 18, Number 2 (April/June 2011) 29 pages DOI: 10.1590/S0104-59702011000200007 Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti, PhD candidate Graduate Program on History of the Sciences and Health Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Marcos Chor…

  • Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World Texas A&M University Press 2010-07-12 168 pages 6 x 9, Illus. Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60344-192-6 Edited by: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Christopher Morris, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With the recent election of the nation’s first…

  • Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century Cambridge University Press January 2009 348 pages 228 x 152 mm; 0.6kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521884655 Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Professor of Modern History Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in…

  • Interracial Marriage in the Last Portuguese Colonial Empire Journal of Portuguese History Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 2007 23 pages ISSN: 1645-6432 Maria Eugénia Mata, Associate Professor of Economic History and History of Economics University of Lisbon The paper presents both the institutional background and the government philosophy regarding equality and non-prejudice within all of…

  • The Creole Elite and the Rise of Angolan Proto-Nationalism, 1870–1920 Cambria Press 2008-09-08 340 pages ISBN: 9781604975291 Jacopo Corrado This book is about Angolan literature and culture. It investigates a segment of Angolan history and literature, with which even Portuguese-speaking readers are generally not familiar. Its main purpose is to define the features and the…

  • The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context Cambria Press 2010-08-08 360 pages ISBN: 9781604977042 Antonio Olliz-Boyd, Emeritus Professor of Latin American Literature Temple University Just beneath the surface of most scholars’ research on the ethno-racial composition of Spanish-speaking America lies a definitive connection between the African Diaspora and the Latin American…