Day: March 9, 2013

  • Ben-Ur awarded study grant by Hadassah-Brandeis Institute In the Loop: News for Staff and Faculty University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2012-12-13 Associate professor Aviva Ben-Ur of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies has been awarded a Senior Grant in History from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for her book project “Eurafrican Identity in a Jewish Society:…

  • Referential Ambiguity in the Calculus of Brazilian Racial Identity Southwestern Journal of Anthropology Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring, 1970) pages 1-14 Marvin Harris (1927-2001) Categorizations elicited from 100 Brazilian informants through the use of a standardized deck of facial drawings suggests that the cognitive domain of racial identity in Brazil is characterized by a high…

  • Racial Identity in Brazil Luso-Brazilian Review Volume 1, Number 2 (Winter, 1964) pages 21-28 Marvin Harris (1927-2001) According to the 1950 census, the population of Brazil consisted of 61.66% brancos, 26.54% pardos, and 10.6% pretos. In the I.B.G.E.’s 1961 review of these facts, the following caution is registered: In order to avoid erroneous interpretation, it…