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  • Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America

    Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America Latin American Research Review Volume 48, Number 3 (2013) pages 130-152 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2013.0045 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University Latin American elites authored and disseminated ideologies of mestizaje or race mixture, but does the general population value them today? Using the…

  • 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…

  • Defining Blackness in Colombia

    Changing definitions of blackness in Colombia, through the process of multiculturalist reform and after, are examined with a view to exploring which categories of actors were influential in shaping these definitions and which were involved in essentialisations and de-essentialisations.

  • Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America

    Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the contributors to “Mestizo Genomics” explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research.

  • 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…

  • A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans

    A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans Miami Herald 2007-06-10 through 2007-06-24 In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful civil and cultural rights movement flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garffuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not…

  • Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948

    Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948 Duke University Press 2003 320 pages Illustrations: 9 b&w photos, 5 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3092-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3080-6 Nancy P. Appelbaum, Associate Professor of History Binghamton University, State University of New York Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who…

  • Mestizaje nacional: una historia “negra” por contar / National miscegenation: a “negro” history yet to be told

    Mestizaje nacional: una historia “negra” por contar / National miscegenation: a “negro” history yet to be told Memoria y Sociedad Volume 14, Number 29 (2010) pages 91-105 Diana Catalina Zapata-Cortés Historiadora de la Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia This work analyzes the “negro” representation in the projects of folklore diffusion that spread in the…

  • ‘Passing’ in colonial Colombia

    ‘Passing’ in colonial Colombia Havard University Gazette 2009-02-12 Corydon Ireland, Harvard News Office Racial categories today are self-evident — part of what social scientists might call “socially constructed discourse.” Contemporary people of one race are aware of what other races look like, as well as where they themselves belong in the racial scheme of things.…

  • Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831

    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 History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Myths of Harmony examines a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most…