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  • Brief communication: Admixture analysis with forensic microsatellites in Minas Gerais, Brazil: The ongoing evolution of the capital and of an African-derived community

    Brief communication: Admixture analysis with forensic microsatellites in Minas Gerais, Brazil: The ongoing evolution of the capital and of an African-derived community American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 139, Issue 4 (August 2009) pages 591–595 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21046 Marília O. Scliar Departamento de Biologia Geral, ICB Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, MG, Brazil Marco T. Vaintraub GENETICENTER—Centro…

  • Was Your Mama Mulatto? Notes toward a Theory of Racialized Sexuality in Gayl Jones’s “Corregidora” and Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust”

    Was Your Mama Mulatto? Notes toward a Theory of Racialized Sexuality in Gayl Jones’s “Corregidora” and Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust” Callaloo Volume 27, Number 3 (Summer, 2004) pages 768-787 E-ISSN: 1080-6512, Print ISSN: 0161-2492 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2004.0136 Caroline A. Streeter, Associate Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora (1975)…

  • Race Mixture among Northeastern Brazilian Populations

    Race Mixture among Northeastern Brazilian Populations American Anthropologist Volume 64, Issue 4 (August 1962) pages 751–759 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1962.64.4.02a00050 P. H. Saldanha Laboratória de Genética Humana Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Northeastern Brazilian populations are extremely interesting for racial studies. These populations are derived from the intermixture of Negroes, Whites (Portuguese), and…

  • Blood groups of Whites, Negroes and Mulattoes from the State of Maranhão, Brazil

    Blood groups of Whites, Negroes and Mulattoes from the State of Maranhão, Brazil American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 6, Issue 4 (December 1948) pages 423–428 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330060412 E. M. da Silva Department of Hematology Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Within the Brazilian “melting pot” the intensity and variation of the racial mixture…

  • Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

    Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective University Press of America April 2010 516 pages Paper ISBN: 0-7618-5064-3 / 978-0-7618-5064-9 Electronic ISBN: 0-7618-5092-9 / 978-0-7618-5092-2 Edited by Julius O. Adekunle, Professor of History Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey Hettie V. Williams, Lecturer, African American History Department of History and Anthropology…

  • Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature

    In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje—which proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elements—he examines a selection of texts that represent the entire…

  • “Girl, You Are Not Morena. We Are Negras!”: Questioning the Concept of “Race” in Southern Bahia, Brazil

    “Girl, You Are Not Morena. We Are Negras!”: Questioning the Concept of “Race” in Southern Bahia, Brazil Ethos Volume 35, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 383-409 DOI: 10.1525/eth.2007.35.3.383 Michael D. Baran, Preceptor in Expository Writing Harvard University In 2003, teachers at the municipal high school in Belmonte, Brazil, began presenting students with a radically different…

  • We Are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing Ethnic Identity

    We Are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing Ethnic Identity Temple University Press January 2000 304 pages 7×10 5 tables 5 figures Paper EAN: 978-1-56639-723-0; ISBN: 1-56639-723-5 edited by Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara and W. Jeffrey Burroughs, Dean of Math and Sciences and Professor of Psychology Brigham Young…

  • Classes You May Have Missed: On Modern Brazilian Literature

    Classes You May Have Missed: On Modern Brazilian Literature Pitt Magazine January, 1995 Bobby J. Chamberlain, Associate Professor of Brazilian Culture and Literature University of Pittsburgh Brazilian culture has always been considered a fusion of three different races: the Europeans (specifically Portuguese), the Indians, and the Africans who were taken to Brazil as slaves. But…

  • Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil

    Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil Duke University Press 2001 392 pages 46 b&w photos, 1 map, 3 figures Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2731-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2741-7 Jonathan W. Warren, Associate Professor of International and Latin American Studies University of Washington Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in…