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  • Free People of Color in the Spanish Atlantic: Race and Citizenship, 1780–1850

    Free People of Color in the Spanish Atlantic: Race and Citizenship, 1780–1850 Routledge 2020-08-07 252 pages 5 b/w Illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780367494926 eBook ISBN: 9781003046813 Federica Morelli, Associate Professor of History of the Americas University of Turin, Turin, Italy This book grapples with the important contemporary question of the boundaries of citizenship and access to…

  • Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America (First Edition)

    “Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America” explores the dynamic interplay between racial politics and hegemonic power in the region. It investigates the fluid intersection of social power and racial politics and their impact on the region’s histories, politics, identities and cultures.

  • The Rise of the Afro-descendent Identity in Latin America

    For Black History Month, Catherine Walsh, professor of Afro-Andean Studies at the University Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador, shares with teleSUR her views about the achievements and challenges for the construction of an Afro-descendent consciousness in Latin America.

  • 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…

  • JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage

    JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 18:00 JST (Local Time) Room: 315 Erica Chito Childs, Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Mapping attitudes toward intermarriage—who is and who…

  • Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival

    Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival University of Illinois Press May 2013 216 pages 6 x 9 in. 16 black & white photographs, 3 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03751-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07901-6 Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University…

  • Schooling, Blackness and national identity in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

    Schooling, Blackness and national identity in Esmeraldas, Ecuador Race Ethnicity and Education Volume 10, Issue 1, (March 2007) pages 47-70 DOI: 10.1080/13613320601100377 Ethan Allen Johnson, Assistant Professor of Black Studies Portland State University, Portland, Oregon In Esmeraldas, Ecuador, students of African descent make sense of racial identity and discrimination in multiple and contradictory ways as…

  • Student and teacher negotiations of racial identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian region

    Student and teacher negotiations of racial identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian region International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Volume 22, Issue 5 (September-October 2009) pages 563-584 DOI: 10.1080/09518390902915439 Ethan Allen Johnson, Assistant Professor of Black Studies Portland State University, Portland, Oregon In this article, using data collected primarily through interviews and observations the researcher explores…

  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America University of Texas Press 2004 6 x 9 in. 216 pp., 3 b&w illus. ISBN: 978-0-292-70596-8 Marilyn Grace Miller, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Tulane University, New Orleans Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and…