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  • Mestizaje in the Age of Fascism: German and Q’eqchi’ Maya Interracial Unions in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

    Mestizaje in the Age of Fascism: German and Q’eqchi’ Maya Interracial Unions in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala German History Volume 34, Issue 2 (June 2016) pages 214-236 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghw017 Julie Gibbings, Assistant Professor of History University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada In contemporary Guatemala, Q’eqchi’ Mayas of German descent are reclaiming identities as ‘the improved race’…

  • Race: An Introduction

    Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part One explores the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part Two outlines ways in…

  • 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…

  • Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach

    Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach Oxford University Press 2014-08-01 528 pages 7-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780199920013 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach engages students in critical questions related to racial dynamics in the U.S. and around the world. Written in accessible,…

  • Germans Loving Others: Narrating Interracial Romance in Kenya, North America, and Guatemala

    Germans Loving Others: Narrating Interracial Romance in Kenya, North America, and Guatemala 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 70: Central European History Society 3 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University Papers: “Seeking Winnetou:…

  • Transforming Mulatto Identity in Colonial Guatemala and El Salvador; 1670-1720

    Transforming Mulatto Identity in Colonial Guatemala and El Salvador; 1670-1720 Transforming Anthropology Volume 12, Issue 1-2 (January 2004) Pages 9 – 20 DOI: 10.1525/tran.2004.12.1-2.9 Paul Lokken, Assistant Professor of Latin American History Bryant University, Smithfield Rhode Island This article examines an important moment in the history of people of African origins in the region now encompassed…

  • Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience

    Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience University of Oklahoma Press 1997 368 pages 9.09″ x 6.02″ x 0.83″ 14 illus, 6 maps, 1 figure Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8061-2911-2; ISBN(10): 0-8061-2911-5 Christopher H. Lutz Santiago de Guatemala was the colonial capital and most important urban center of Spanish Central America from its establishment…

  • Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala

    Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala University of Arizona Press 2010 192 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2767-0 Brigittine M. French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged…