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Month: March 2012

  • Black Orpheus and the Merging of two Brazilian Nations

    Black Orpheus and the Merging of two Brazilian Nations European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 71, October 2001 pages 107-115 Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos, Associate Professor of Sociology State University of Rio de Janeiro The second cinematic remake of the play ‘Orfeu da Conceição’ has sparked a new debate among filmmakers and…

  • The “Americanization” of Racial Identity in Brazil: Recent Experiments with Affirmative Action in a “Racial Democracy”

    The “Americanization” of Racial Identity in Brazil: Recent Experiments with Affirmative Action in a “Racial Democracy” Journal of International Policy Solutions Volume 5 (Spring 2006) pages 5-25 Ana Pagano In 2001, the Brazilian Ministry of Agrarian Development surprised the international community by implementing an affirmative action program. The program, which was the first of its…

  • Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas

    Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas Michigan State University Press April 2012 344 pages 6 x 9, notes, references ISBN: 978-1-61186-040-5 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics University of South Florida Kimberly Eison Simmons, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies; Director of the Latin American Studies…

  • Invisible citizens?

    Invisible citizens? IDB America: Magazine of Inter-American Development Bank August 2001 Charo Quesada Censuses in many Latin American countries omit questions about race, rendering minority groups statistically invisible If we relied entirely on censuses to understand what the people of Latin America and the Caribbean look like, the picture that would emerge would be a…

  • Professor Ira Berlin: Slavery

    Professor Ira Berlin: Slavery U.S. History: Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium Meet the Historians 1999-04-12 Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor of History University of Maryland These renowned historians and experts chatted with students online. Read the transcripts. Ira Berlin is a leading historian of southern and African-American life. He is Professor of History at the…

  • Room for Debate: Brazil’s Racial Identity Challenge

    Room for Debate: Brazil’s Racial Identity Challenge The New York Times 2012-03-30 Jerry Dávila, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History University of Illinois Peter Fry, Anthropolgist Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University Yvonne Maggie,…

  • Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit

    Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit University of California Press February 2012 304 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520270756 Hardback ISBN: 9780520270749 Anna O. Marley, Curator of Historical American Art Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts This beautiful book, companion publication to the exhibition of the same name, presents a complex overview of the life and career of the…

  • “¿Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata?”: Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film Mulata (1954)

    “¿Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata?”: Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film Mulata (1954) Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 18, Issue 3, November 2008 Special Issue: Sensualidades: Sounds and Movement in Latina/o Culture pages 215-233 DOI: 10.1080/07407700802495951 Melissa Blanco Borelli, Lecturer of Dance Studies University of Surrey This essay…

  • Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True

    Beautifully written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold, this children’s book accompanies the major exhibition “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit.”

  • A Taste for Honey: Choreographing the Mulatta in the Hollywood Dance Film

    This article examines the filmic representations of the mulatta body in the films “Sparkle” (1976), “Flashdance” (1983) and “Honey” (2003). More specifically, this article seeks to unravel how the Hollywood filmic apparatus engages with signifiers of raced sexuality and hierarchies of dance styles to enforce and reify mythic narratives about dance, dancing raced bodies and…