Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Color of Love Lecture & Book Signing

    The Color of Love Lecture & Book Signing University of South Florida Tampa Library Grace Allen Room, 4th Floor 4202 E. Fowler Ave. LIB122 Tampa, Florida Monday, 2015-11-16, 11:00-13:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Assistant Professor in Sociology and ISLAC Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates [in her new book, The Color of Love:…

  • The core of the doctrine disseminated under Vargas was that no matter what their ethnic background, Brazilians are all mixed and hence one.

    Race is an elusive category and provides an even more elusive way to forge a sense of collective belonging. Nobody is more aware of this elusiveness than Brazilian black-power activists. For most of the history of blacks in Brazil, Africans and their descendents had a strong sense of being different from their white slaveholders. This difference was…

  • Brazil’s New Racial Politics

    Brazil’s New Racial Politics Lynne Rienner Publishers 2009 251 pages ISBN: 978-1-58826-666-8 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Political Science University of South Florida Gladys L. Mitchell (Gladys Mitchell-Walthour), Assistant Professor of Political Science Denison University, Granville, Ohio As the popular myth of racial equality in Brazil crumbles beneath the weight of current grassroots…

  • Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas

    Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas Michigan State University Press April 2012 344 pages 6 x 9, notes, references ISBN: 978-1-61186-040-5 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics University of South Florida Kimberly Eison Simmons, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies; Director of the Latin American Studies…