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  • Bi-racial U.S.A. vs. Multi-racial Brazil: Is the Contrast Still Valid?

    Bi-racial U.S.A. vs. Multi-racial Brazil: Is the Contrast Still Valid? Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 25, Issue 2 (May 1993) pages 373-386 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X00004703 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University In the last two decades the comparative analysis of race relations in the U.S.A. and Brazil has…

  • Lara

    Lara is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo’s own childhood and family history.

  • Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity

    Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity University of North Carolina Press September 2009 208 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 2 figs., 4 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3177-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5975-9 Beatriz Góis Dantas, Professor Emerita of Anthropology Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil Translated by Stephen Berg Nagô…

  • The Idea Of Race

    The Idea Of Race Hackett Publishing Company 2000 256 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-87220-459-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-459-1 Paper ISBN: 0-87220-458-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-458-4 Edited by Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Tommy L. Lott, Professor of Philosophy San José State University A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this…

  • Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast

    Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast University of North Carolina Press June 2009 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 18 illus., 2 maps, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN  978-0-8078-3292-9 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5951-3 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond Anthropologists widely agree that identities—even ethnic and racial ones—are socially constructed.…

  • Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families (Preliminary Version)

    Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families (Preliminary Version) Prepared for the Labor and Population Workshop, Department of Economics, Yale University May, 2007 53 pages Marcos A. Rangel, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy Studies University of Chicago Recent studies have shown that differences in wage-determinant skills between blacks and whites…

  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America University of Texas Press 2004 6 x 9 in. 216 pp., 3 b&w illus. ISBN: 978-0-292-70596-8 Marilyn Grace Miller, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Tulane University, New Orleans Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and…

  • Aisha Khan Lecture – New York University Professor Aisha Khan Speaks on Multiculturalism

    Aisha Khan Lecture – New York University Professor Aisha Khan Speaks on Multiculturalism St. Augustine News – STAN University of the West Indies July-September 2006 Page 24 Alake Pilgrim [Article copied in full for readability.  To read in original print layout version (with photographs), click here.] On the surface of things, Professor Aisha Khan, lecturer…

  • Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States

    Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 5 December 2003 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University For me, as a historian of Brazil, North America’s “one-drop rule” has always seemed odd. No other society in…

  • Race in another America: the significance of skin color in Brazil

    his is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil.