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  • Pigmentocracies: Educational Inequality, Skin Color and Census Ethnoracial Identification in Eight Latin American Countries

    Pigmentocracies: Educational Inequality, Skin Color and Census Ethnoracial Identification in Eight Latin American Countries Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Available online: 2015-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2015.02.002 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University René Flores University of Washington Fernando Urrea Giraldo, Professor of Sociology Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia Highlights We use two measures of race…

  • Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru by Rachel Sarah O’Toole (review)

    Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru by Rachel Sarah O’Toole (review) Journal of Social History Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2014 pages 465-466 Erick D. Langer, Professor of Latin American History Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. O’Toole, Rachel Sarah, Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial…

  • Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America University of North Carolina Press October 2014 320 pages 59 figs., 4 maps, 23 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-1783-1 Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University and The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) Princeton University Pigmentocracies—the fruit…

  • Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach

    Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach Oxford University Press 2014-08-01 528 pages 7-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780199920013 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach engages students in critical questions related to racial dynamics in the U.S. and around the world. Written in accessible,…

  • American Race and Charismatic License: Finding Martín de Porres in Obama

    American Race and Charismatic License: Finding Martín de Porres in Obama Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 97, Number 3, 2014 pages 376-384 DOI: 10.1353/sij.2014.0018 Chris Garces, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Problematizing the saintly reputation of seventeenth-century Dominican servant Martín de Porres, this article explores a little-known, late medieval Spanish form…

  • The Color Of Health: Skin Color, Ethnoracial Classification, And Discrimination In The Health Of Latin Americans

    The Color Of Health: Skin Color, Ethnoracial Classification, And Discrimination In The Health Of Latin Americans Social Science & Medicine Available online: 2014-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.05.054 Krista M. Perreira, Professor of Public Policy and Associate Dean Office for Undergraduate Research University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New…

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas

    Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru

    Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru University Press of Florida 2011-04-17 246 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3574-1 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4449-1 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English—in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades—to address…

  • Gladys Zimmerman, Mother Of George Zimmerman, Says Her Family Is ‘Proudly Afro-Peruvian,’ But Do His Black Roots Matter In Trayvon Martin Case?

    Gladys Zimmerman, Mother Of George Zimmerman, Says Her Family Is ‘Proudly Afro-Peruvian,’ But Do His Black Roots Matter In Trayvon Martin Case? Latin Times New York, New York 2013-07-15 David Iaconangelo As protests mount against the verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, the question of how the public ought to see Zimmerman’s racial background…

  • Race-Crossing

    Race-Crossing Sacramento Daily Union Volume 2, Number 4 (1890-06-08) page 1, column 4 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Lima, the capital of Peru, is pronounced to be the headquarters of all the world’s mongreldom. Its population is the product of three centuries of race-crossing, and a scientific investigator finds easily distinguishable among the inhabitants the…