Day: December 29, 2009

  • 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 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 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 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 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…