Month: July 2016

  • ‘We Are All the Same, We All Are Mestizos’: Imagined Populations and Nations in Genetics Research in Colombia Science as Culture Volume 23, Issue 2, 2014 pages 226-252 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.838214 María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Assistant Professor Department of Design University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Adriana Díaz Del Castillo Hernández, Independent Researcher Consultoría en Estudios…

  • Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics Current Anthropology Volume 55, Number 5 (October 2014) pages 497-522 DOI: 10.1086/677945 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Vivette García Deister, Associate Professor Social Studies of Science Laboratory National Autonomous University of Mexico Michael Kent, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology…

  • Towards a Biopolitics of Beauty: Eugenics, Aesthetic Hierarchies and Plastic Surgery in Brazil Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesia Volume 24, Issue 4, 2015 Special Issue: Visual Culture and Violence in Contemporary Mexico DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2015.1091296 Alvaro Jarrín, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts This article provides…

  • Obama Returns to His Biography The Atlantic 2016-07-27 Yoni Appelbaum, Senior Editor/Washington Bureau Chief Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters Twelve years after introducing himself to the American public as the son of an immigrant, the president recast himself as a bearer of Scotch-Irish values. Twelve years ago, Barack Obama introduced himself to America as just a…

  • President Obama and the Long March The New York Times 2016-07-28 The Editorial Board President Obama’s speech before the Democratic convention in Philadelphia Wednesday night was, of course, an occasion to celebrate the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state and the first woman to receive the presidential nomination of a major political…

  • Hundreds of Irish marched in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in Dublin, Cork, and Galway, following a week of violence in the United States.

  • Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths Process: A Blog For American History 2016-07-12 Matthew E. Stanley, Assistant Professor of History Albany State University, Albany, Georgia Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been both perpetuated by and reflected in popular culture since the late nineteenth century.…

  • Zawe Ashton interview: The actress is moving on from Fresh Meat with a starring role in Channel 4’s comedy drama Not Safe for Work The Independent 2015-06-19 Gillian Orr Multi-talented: Ashton likes to do her own thing Immo Klink Acting, directing, writing: Zawe Ashton is a woman on the move. Gillian Orr tries to keep…

  • A Letter From Young Asian-Americans To Their Families About Black Lives Matter Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-07-27 Shereen Marisol Meraji, Reporter Kat Chow, Digital Journalist In the Facebook Live video streamed earlier this month by Diamond Reynolds after her fiance, Philando Castile, was fatally shot by a police officer during…

  • Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels Bucknell University Press 2015 252 pages ISBN 9781611486209 Earl E. Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt, Tennessee This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that…