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  • Mixed Blood: An analytical look at methods of classifying race

    Mixed Blood: An analytical look at methods of classifying race Psyhcology Today 1995-11-01 Jefferson M. Fish, Professor Emeritus of Psychology St. John’s University, New York, New York An analytical look at methods of classifying race. Race is an immutable biological given, right? So how come the author’s daughter can change her race just by getting…

  • Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters

    Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Stanford University Press 2009 312 pages 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804759984 Paper ISBN: 9780804759991 E-book ISBN: 9780804770996 Edited by: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference…

  • Comparative racisms: What anti-racists can learn from Latin America

    Comparative racisms: What anti-racists can learn from Latin America Ethnicities Volume 11, Number 1 (2011-03-31) pages 32-58 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810388699 Jonathan Warren, Chair of the Center for Brazilian Studies; Associate Professor of International Studies University of Washington Christina A. Sue, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Colorado, Boulder There has been extensive debate about the putative…

  • President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One

    President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One The New York Times 2011-03-20 Alexei Barrionuevo Jackie Calmes RIO de JANEIRO — From a visit to this city’s most infamous slum to a national address amid the gilded elegance of a celebrated theater, President Obama on Sunday sought to underscore the shared histories and futures of…

  • Session 408: Haafu, mixed race studies and multicultural questions in Japan

    Session 408: Haafu, mixed race studies and multicultural questions in Japan AAS-ICAS Joint Conference Association for Asian Studes (AAS)/International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2011-03-31 through 2011-04-03 Hawai’i Convention Center Honolulu, Hawaii Session Location and Time: Room 316C Saturday, 2011-04-02, 07:30-09:30 HAST (Local Time) Organizer and Chair: Koichi Iwabuchi Waseda University, Japan Discussant: Hsiao-Chuan Hsia…

  • Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas

    Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas Ashgate Publishing July 2007 218 pages 219 x 153 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-5189-5 Edited by Nora E. Jaffary, Associate Professor of History Concordia University, Montreal, Canada When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded…

  • Determining the (In)Determinable: Race in Brazil and the United States

    Determining the (In)Determinable: Race in Brazil and the United States Michigan Journal of Race & Law Volume 14, Issue 2 (Spring 2009) pages 143-195 D. Wendy Greene, Assistant Professor of Law Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama Recently, the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Mato Grasso du Sol have implemented…

  • All Things Being Equal: The Promise of Affirmative Efforts to Eradicate Color-Coded Inequality in the United States and Brazil

    All Things Being Equal: The Promise of Affirmative Efforts to Eradicate Color-Coded Inequality in the United States and Brazil National Black Law Journal Volume 21, Number 3 (2009) 41 pages Tanya M. Washington, Associate Professor of Law Georgia State University The contrasted contexts of the United States and Brazil provide an intellectually fascinating framework for…

  • White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity [Review]

    White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity [Review] H-Net Reviews February 2010 Lorenzo Veracini Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond. White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Cloth ISBN 978-1-4039-7595-9. Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond has published a persuasive outline and contextualization of Brazilian “Race Democracy” advocate Gilberto Freyre. In a forthcoming book, I argue…

  • Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: “After the Conflict Came the History”

    Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: “After the Conflict Came the History” American Anthropologist Volume 106, Issue 4 (December 2004) pages 663–674 DOI: 10.1525/aa.2004.106.4.663 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond In this article, I explore issues of authenticity, legal discourse, and local requirements of belonging by…