Month: August 2011

  • Into the box and out of the picture: The rhetorical management of the mulatto in the Jim Crow era Duke University 2005 573 pages Publication Number: AAT 3250085 Jené Lee Schoenfeld Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English in the Graduate School…

  • Identity and Public Policy: Redefining the Concept of Racial Democracy in Brazil Harvard Journal of African American Policy 2011 Edition Krystle Norman Krystle Norman is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, where she received her master’s degree in public policy. In 2008, she received her bachelor’s degree from the University of…

  • Race in Brazil: Out of Eden The Economist 2003-07-03 Brazil used to think it could be colour-blind. Alas, no longer JOANA, an actress and student, is white, or at least that is what her birth certificate says. She has a white father, a mixed-race mother and skin the colour of cappuccino. But she considers herself…

  • Accepting and embracing a mixed-race identity hardly reveals racial progress. As it is currently constructed, mixed-race identity does not dismantle racial hierarchies. Rather, it reiterates white supremacy by attempting to etch a space for itself somewhere under whiteness–which it knows it can never access–and definitely above blackness.

  • The presence of Eurasian images in fashion representations and their absence from finance representations draw attention to the historical origins, cultural trajectories and ambivalence of meaning associated with ‘raced’ and sexed representations. Although the inclusion of Asian and Eurasian women may be intended to offset their previous absence and secure a wider multicultural appeal, they…

  • Is the high value placed on the beauty of mulatas in Brazil an example of Brazil’s racial democracy or, in fact, an instance of its profound racism? IDEATE The Undergraduate Journal of Sociology University of Essex Volume 6, Summer 2011 8 pages Bethan Rafferty SC386 Anthropology of Latin America: Race, Gender and Identity The role…

  • Blonde Beauties and Black Booties: Racial Hierarchies in Brazil Ms. Magazine Blog 2010-06-11 Erica Williams, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Model scouts strategically target towns in Southern Brazil to “find the right genetic cocktail of German and Italian ancestry, perhaps with some Russian or other Slavic blood thrown in,” explains Alexei Barrionuevo…

  • The tan from Ipanema: Freyre, Morenidade, and the cult of the body in Rio De Janeiro Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies October 2009 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Art Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada She says she has brown skin, and a feverish body And inside the chest, love of Brazil…

  • Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America Black in Latin America Public Broadcasting Service April 2011 Gates discusses his new project in this interview from the PBS site. First, could you talk a little bit about this project? I conceived of this as a trilogy of documentary series that…

  • Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought Duke University Press 1974 334 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-1320-5 Thomas E. Skidmore, Emeritus Professor of History Brown University Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore’s intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in…