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  • Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race

    Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race Stanford University Press April 2012 268 pages 6 tables, 1 figure, 20 photographs Cloth ISBN: 9780804777957 Paper ISBN: 9780804777964 E-book ISBN: 9780804782531 Wendy D. Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United…

  • Legislation eradicates Dominican “Indians”

    Legislation eradicates Dominican “Indians” Dominican Today 2011-11-11 Santo Domingo.—Mulatto, black and white will be the only colors among Dominicans and will be stated thus in the citizens ID cards (cedula), effectively eradicating the nation’s “Indians.” The bill “Dominican Republic Electoral Law Reform” states that in the master file of cedulas the color of Dominicans will…

  • Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America

    Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America University of Southern California August 2009 311 pages Ruth Blandón Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) In my historical examination of the literary…

  • Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

    Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops Duke University Press 2007 360 pages 37 b&w photos, 9 tables Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4037-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4018-8 Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical…

  • Dominican Republic Country Profile

    Dominican Republic Country Profile BBC News 2011-12-06 Once ruled by Spain, the Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, a former French colony. OVERVIEW… …The Dominican Republic is inhabited mostly by people of mixed European and African origins. Western influence is seen in the colonial buildings of the capital, Santo Domingo, as well…

  • Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America

    Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America Black in Latin America Public Broadcasting Service April 2011 Gates discusses his new project in this interview from the PBS site. First, could you talk a little bit about this project? I conceived of this as a trilogy of documentary series that…

  • Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic

    Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic Political Psychology Volume 22, Issue 4 (December 2001) pages 827–851 DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00264 Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and African and African American Studies Harvard University Yesilernis Pena Mark Sawyer, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science University of California, Los Angeles This study explored…

  • Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic

    Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic University Press of Florida 2009-07-05 176 pages 6 x 9 Cloth: ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3374-7, ISBN 10: 0-8130-3374-8 Paper: ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3675-5, ISBN 10: 0-8130-3675-5 Kimberly Eison Simmons, Associate Professor Anthropology & African American Studies University of South Carolina In Latin America and the Caribbean,…

  • Navigating the Racial Terrain: Blackness and Mixedness in the United States and the Dominican Republic

    In this article, I draw on the experiences of students who participated in the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Program in Spanish Language and Caribbean Studies, in Santiago, Dominican Republic, from 2000 to 2004, to situate the seemingly conflicting racial projects of the Dominican Republic and the United States.

  • Institutions, Inculcation, and Black Racial Identity: Pigmentocracy vs. the Rule of Hypodescent

    Institutions, Inculcation, and Black Racial Identity: Pigmentocracy vs. the Rule of Hypodescent Social Identities Volume 14, Issue 5 (September 2008) pages 567-585 DOI: 10.1080/13504630802343390 Richard T. Middleton IV, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Missouri, St. Louis This research paper investigates the effect political institutions have on black racial identity. In particular, I study…