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Month: January 2010

  • Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience

    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…

  • Race and Sex in Latin America

    Peter Wade provides a pioneering overview of the growing literature on race and sex in the region, covering historical aspects and contemporary debates. He includes both black and indigenous people in the frame, as well as mixed and white people, avoiding the implication that “race” means “black-white” relations.

  • White Identities: A Critical Sociological Approach

    White Identities: A Critical Sociological Approach Pluto Press 2009-11-06 240 pages Size: 215mm x 135mm ISBN: 9780745327488 Steve Garner, Lecturer in Sociology Aston University Simon Clarke, Director Centre for Psycho-Social Studies University of the West of England The study of white ethnicities is becoming increasingly important in the social sciences. This book provides a critical…

  • Black Through a Distortion Pedal

    Black Through a Distortion Pedal San Fransisco Bay Press 2010-01-01 Eric Wilkinson Black Through a Distortion Pedal is a poetry compilation about indulgence in and resistance to a racialized world from the perspective of a white youth who found his voice in hip-hop. Wilkinson explores the genesis of multiple selves in an era of increasingly…

  • The Virginia Racial Integrity Act Revisited: The Plecker-Laughlin correspondence: 1928-1930

    The Virginia Racial Integrity Act Revisited: The Plecker-Laughlin correspondence: 1928-1930 American Journal of Medical Genetics Volume 16, Issue 4 Pages 483 – 492 December 1983 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320160407 Philip Reilly University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas   Margery Shaw University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas Correspondence between Walter Ashby Plecker, Virginia State Registrar of…

  • Transforming Mulatto Identity in Colonial Guatemala and El Salvador; 1670-1720

    Transforming Mulatto Identity in Colonial Guatemala and El Salvador; 1670-1720 Transforming Anthropology Volume 12, Issue 1-2 (January 2004) Pages 9 – 20 DOI: 10.1525/tran.2004.12.1-2.9 Paul Lokken, Assistant Professor of Latin American History Bryant University, Smithfield Rhode Island This article examines an important moment in the history of people of African origins in the region now encompassed…

  • ‘Whose colour was no black nor white nor grey, But an extraneous mixture, which no pen Can trace, although perhaps the pencil may’: Aspasie and Delacroix’s “Massacres of Chios”

    ‘Whose colour was no black nor white nor grey, But an extraneous mixture, which no pen Can trace, although perhaps the pencil may’: Aspasie and Delacroix’s “Massacres of Chios” Art History Volume 22, Issue 5 (December 1999) Pages 676-704 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8365.00182 Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Professor of Art History The University of California, Berkeley While painting Massacres…

  • Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples

    Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples Social Science Quarterly (September 2004) Volume 85, Issue 3 Pages 746 – 766 DOI: 10.1111/j.0038-4941.2004.00243.x Zhenchao Qian, Professor of Sociology Ohio State University Objective. Whites of various European ethnic backgrounds usually have weak ethnic attachment and have options to identify their ethnic identity (Waters, 1990). What about children…

  • Raising Multiracial Awareness in Family Therapy through Critical Conversations

    Raising Multiracial Awareness in Family Therapy through Critical Conversations Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Volume 31, Issue 4 Pages 399 – 411 October 2005 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2005.tb01579.x Teresa McDowell School of Family Studies University of Connecticut Lucrezia Ingoglia Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare Tacoma, Washington Takiko Seizawa Family Service Associates San Antonio, Texas Christina Holland Behavioral…