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  • Not Just Color: Whiteness, nation, and status in Latin America

    Not Just Color: Whiteness, nation, and status in Latin America Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 93, Number 3 (August 2013) pages 411-449 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2210858 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University René Flores Princeton University In this study we use statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys from the 2010 AmericasBarometer to examine how color, nationality, and…

  • Pigmentocracy in the Americas: How is Educational Attainment Related to Skin Color?

    Pigmentocracy in the Americas: How is Educational Attainment Related to Skin Color? Latin American Pubic Opinion Project AmericasBarometer Insights Number 73 (2012) Vanderbilt University 2012-02-20 Number 73 (2012) 9 pages Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Liza Steele Department of Sociology Princeton University Executive Summary: This Insights report addresses the question of whether educational…

  • Cultural Imperialism and the Transformation of Race Relations in Brazil

    Cultural Imperialism and the Transformation of Race Relations in Brazil Latin American Perspectives Issue 178, Volume 38, Number 3 (May 2011) pages 194-208 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X10390624 Bernadete Ramos Beserra, Professor Federal University of Ceará Edward E. Telles, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006.…

  • The overlapping concepts of race and colour in Latin America

    The overlapping concepts of race and colour in Latin America Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 7, (July 2012) pages 1163-1168 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.657209 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University I thank Ethnic and Racial Studies for the opportunity to participate in this symposium and I am honoured to be in conversation with Michael…

  • Beyond Fixed or Fluid: Degrees of Fluidity in Racial Identification in Latin America

    Beyond Fixed or Fluid: Degrees of Fluidity in Racial Identification in Latin America The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America Princeton University 2012-05-23 60 pages Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Tianna S. Paschel, Post Doctoral Fellow (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science as of July 2012) Department of Political…

  • Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil

    Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil Duke University Press 1999 232 pages 9 tables Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2272-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2252-8 Edited by Michael Hanchard, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a…

  • Intermarriage versus Miscegenation

    We have noted important analytical distinctions that need to be taken into account when addressing the related but separate social phenomena of intermarriage, miscegenation, multiracial identity, multiracial social movements, and race-mixture ideologies. Whereas all these topics deal, on some level, with racial-boundary crossing, the implications for the boundaries themselves and the racialized social structure are…

  • Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters

    Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Stanford University Press 2009 312 pages 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804759984 Paper ISBN: 9780804759991 E-book ISBN: 9780804770996 Edited by: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference…

  • Race Mixture: Boundary Crossing in Comparative Perspective

    In this article, we examine a large, interdisciplinary, and somewhat scattered literature, all of which falls under the umbrella term race mixture. We highlight important analytical distinctions that need to be taken into account when addressing the related, but separate, social phenomena of intermarriage, miscegenation, multiracial identity, multiracial social movements, and race-mixture ideologies.

  • Racial Discrimination and Miscegenation: The Experience in Brazil

    In 1888, Brazil, with a mostly black and mixed race or mulatto population, was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery. During more than 300 years of slavery in the Americas, it was the largest importer of African slaves, bringing in seven times as many African slaves to the country, compared to…