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Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom: Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America

2017-05-03

In “Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom,” Peter Wade draws on a multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. He shows how Latin American elites and outside observers have emphasized mixture’s democratizing potential, depicting it as a useful resource for addressing problems of racism (claiming that race mixture undoes racial difference and hierarchy), while…
With images of people of various skin tones, urban Afro-Colombians as well as farmers and people in traditional clothes, and music in the background that was not easily identifiable with any specific region in the country, the commercial’s message was clear: they were all AfroColombian.

2017-01-10

The Beautiful Faces commercial was about thirty seconds long: ‘I am negro, morena, mulata, zamba. I am Afro-descendant. I count. Palenquero, raizal, mulato, negra, I count. Afro-descendant, morena, negra. I’m zambo, raizal. I count. Palenquero, negro.’ It ended with the confident words of Maria Eugenia Arboleda, a famous AfroColombian actress: ‘My people, in this census,…
‘The Beautiful Faces of my Black People’: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia’s 2005 census

2017-01-06

‘The Beautiful Faces of my Black People’: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia’s 2005 census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, 2013 – Issue 10: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America Pages 1544-1563 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.791398 Tianna S. Paschel, Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley The recent multicultural…
‘We Are All the Same, We All Are Mestizos’: Imagined Populations and Nations in Genetics Research in Colombia

2016-07-29

‘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

2016-07-29

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…
La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia’s History of Slavery

2016-07-07

La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia’s History of Slavery AAIHS: African American Intellectual History Society 2016-07-06 Yesenia Barragan Columbia University, New York, New York This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and the Atlantic/Pacific worlds. She recently received her Ph.D. in…
Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil

2016-06-19

Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil Princeton University Press 2016 328 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9780691169385 eBook ISBN: 978140088107 Tianna S. Paschel, Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative…
Race and Nation in Modern Latin America

2016-06-18

Race and Nation in Modern Latin America University of North Carolina Press March 2003 352 pages 5 illus., notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5441-9 Edited By: Nancy P. Appelbaum, Associate professor of History State University of New York, Binghamton Anne S. Macpherson, Associate Professor of History State University of New York, Brockport…
Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831

2016-06-18

Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 University of Pittsburgh Press August 2007 216 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 9780822959656 Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of Latin American History Universidad Nacional de Colombia This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most…
Race: An Introduction

2015-09-21

Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part One explores the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part Two outlines ways in…

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