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  • The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States

    “The Afro-Latin@ Reader” focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965

    To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 Duke University Press 1998 336 pages 11 b&w photographs, 2 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2098-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2084-5 Jeffrey L. Gould, Rudy Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century,…

  • Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America

    Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America Duke University Press 2009 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4401-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4420-9 Edited by: Matthew D. O’Hara, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz Andrew Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with…

  • The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal

    The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal Duke University Press November 2011 160 pages 20 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5210-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5199-3 Orin Starn, Professor of Cultural Anthropology Duke University Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made…

  • Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945

    Providing a unique historical perspective on how racial attitudes move from elite discourse into people’s lives, “Diploma of Whiteness” shows how public schools promoted the idea that whites were inherently fit and those of African or mixed ancestry were necessarily in need of remedial attention.

  • Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought

    Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought Duke University Press 1974 334 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-1320-5 Thomas E. Skidmore, Emeritus Professor of History Brown University Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore’s intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in…

  • Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

    Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius Duke University Press 2004 360 pages 5 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3402-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3399-9 Megan Vaughan, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History Cambridge University The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists…

  • Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons

    Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons Duke University Press 1996 198 pages Cloth: ISBN: 978-0-8223-1826-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2044-9 Jane Lazarre “I am Black,” Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. “I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me.” She understands, she says—but…