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Month: December 2009

  • Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican demography approximates the present-day ancestry of Mestizos throughout the territory of Mexico

    Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican demography approximates the present-day ancestry of Mestizos throughout the territory of Mexico American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 139 Issue 3 Pages 284 – 294 Published Online: 2009-01-12 Rodrigo Rubi-Castellanos Instituto de Investigación en Genética Molecular, Centro Universitario de la Ciénega, (CUCiénega-UdeG), Ocotlán, Jalisco, México Gabriela Martínez-Cortés Instituto de Investigación en Genética Molecular,…

  • “If Races Don’t Exist, Then Why Am I White?”: The Race Concept Within Contemporary Forensic Anthropology

    “If Races Don’t Exist, Then Why Am I White?”: The Race Concept Within Contemporary Forensic Anthropology Focus Anthropology: A Publication of Undergraduate Research Issue VIII: 2009 Kenyon University 20 pages M. Todd Gross Western Michigan University It is fundamental for human beings to ask why and how things happen. Looking across the globe it is…

  • La Mulata: Cuba’s National Symbol

    La Mulata: Cuba’s National Symbol Focus Anthropology: A Publication of Undergraduate Research Issue IV: 2004-2005 20 pages Tamara Kneese Kenyon College This essay provides a discourse analysis of la mulata as an ambivalent symbol of Cuban national identity. In many ways, la mulata is representative of Cuba’s sexual, racial, and economic hierarchies. On the one…

  • Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations

    Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (2008) Vol. 30, No. 2 pages 161-180 DOI: 10.1177/0739986307313116 Irene López, Assistant Professor of Psychology Kenyon College The following is a historically informed review of Puerto Rican phenotype. Geared toward educating psychologists, this review discusses how various psychological issues associated…

  • Multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru

    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…

  • Sab and Autobiography

    Sab and Autobiography University of Texas Press 1993 185 pages 6 x 9 in. ISBN: 978-0-292-70442-8 Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga Translated and introduced by Nina M. Scott Eleven years before Uncle Tom’s Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love…

  • Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific

    Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific University of Hawai’i Press July 2009 304 pages 15 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3342-8 Fiona Paisley, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia Perspectives on the Global Past Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association (PPWA) has witnessed…

  • The History of White People

    A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of “whiteness”—an illuminating work on the history of race and power.

  • The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging

    The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging W. W. Norton May 2006 240 pages 5.8 × 8.6 in ISBN: 978-0-393-05890-1 Kym Ragusa, Professor of Nonfiction &  Professor Writing Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Inistitute of Technology A memoir of astonishing delicacy and strength…

  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    So begins this epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—Annette Gordon-Reed’s “riveting history” of the Hemings family, whose story comes to vivid life in this brilliantly researched and deeply moving work.…