Category: Brazil

  • Is it good medical practice for physicians to “eyeball” a patient’s race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race?

  • Watson [Program] Will Allow Reid to Study Issues Multi-Racial People Face Davidson University Davidson, North Carolina 2007-04-02 Rachel Andoga “When I went abroad to Strasbourg, France, I remember meeting everybody in my program on the plane, and this one girl said to me, ‘So, can we just get this out of the way—what are you?’”…

  • A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem? Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-08-29 Courtesy of: Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University If Tiger Woods lived in Brazil he would not have had to coin the word “Cablanasian”…

  • Review Essay: Racial Relations and Racism in Brazil Culture & Psychology Volume 13, Number 4 (December 2007) pages 461-473 DOI: 10.1177/1354067X07082805 Marcus Eugênio Oliveira Lima Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil Telles, Edward Eric, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton, NJ/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. 324 pp. ISBN 978–0–691–12792–7 (pbk)…

  • The Impure Imagination: Toward a Critical Hybridity in Latin American Writing University of Minnesota Press 2006 288 pages 5 7⁄8 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4786-0; ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4786-6 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4785-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4785-9 Joshua Lund, Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature University of Pittsburgh Challenges conventional thinking about the widely accepted concept of cultural hybridity.…

  • Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600 University of Texas Press 2005 6 x 9 in. 391 pp., 20 figures, 11 maps, 2 tables ISBN: 978-0-292-71276-8 Alida C. Metcalf, Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History Rice University, Houston, Texas Doña Marina (La Malinche) …Pocahontas …Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged…

  • Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience Journal of Latin American Studies 2005 Number 37, Issue 2 Pages 239–257 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05008990 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester The ideology of mestizaje (mixture) in Latin America has frequently been seen as involving a process of national homogenisation and of hiding a reality of racist…

  • Racial ambiguity among the Brazilian population Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 25, Issue 3 (May 2002) pages 415-441 DOI: 10.1080/01419870252932133 Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University I investigate the extent to which interviewers and respondents in a 1995 national survey consistently classify race in Brazil, overall and in particular contexts. Overall, classification as…

  • Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics Stanford University Press 2000 256 pages 4 tables. Cloth ISBN-10: 0804740135 Cloth ISBN-13: 9780804740135 Paper ISBN-10: 0804740593 Paper ISBN-13: 9780804740593 Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing…

  • Multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru Race & Class (2008) Vol. 49, No. 4 pages 1-21 DOI: 10.1177/0306396808089284 Felipe Arocena (farocena@fcs.edu.uy), Professor of Sociology Universidad de la República-Uruguay The different strategies of resistance deployed by discriminated ethnic groups in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia are analysed here. In Brazil, Afro movements and indigenous populations are increasingly…