Tag: Colombia

  • Liberating Blackness: The Theme of Whitening in Two Colombian Short Stories Callaloo Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 475-493 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2012.0074 Laurence E. Prescott, Professor Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Pennsylvania State University Hablaré del físico de los negros, casi como de carrera. Tienen dos cosas repugnantes para no gustar, el color negro…

  • Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832 American Historical Review Volume 111, Number 2, 2006 pages 336-361, 44 paragraphs Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio During the Age of Revolution, nations in the Americas faced the quandary of how to reconcile slavery and racial discrimination with…

  • From blanqueamiento to reindigenización: Paradoxes of mestizaje and multiculturalism in contemporary Colombia European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 80, (April 2006) Constructing Ethnic Labels pages 5-23 Margarita Chaves, Researcher Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH), Bogotá Marta Zambrano, Associate Professor of Historical Anthropology Universidad Nacional Colombia, Bogotá During the past two…

  • Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay Palgrave Macmillan October 2011 272 pages Includes: 10 pages of figures, 10 pages of tables 5.500 x 8.250 inches ISBN: 978-0-230-11061-8, ISBN10: 0-230-11061-4 Edited by Sahra Gibbon, Wellcome Trust Fellow Department of Social Anthropology University College London Ricardo Ventura Santos, Professor…

  • “Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto”: Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Bogotá Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 601-631 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416648 Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Anthropology Georgetown University My objective in this article is to examine the relationship between perception and classification in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Andes,…

  • Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia. – book reviews Journal of Social History Volume 28, Number 2 (Winter 1994) George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Peter Wade, Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 432 pages, Paperback…

  • Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of “blackness” and discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts—from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing, marriage, music, and personal identity.

  • Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience Journal of Latin American Studies 2005 Number 37, Issue 2 Pages 239–257 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05008990 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester The ideology of mestizaje (mixture) in Latin America has frequently been seen as involving a process of national homogenisation and of hiding a reality of racist…