Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada by Joanne Rappaport (review) [von Germeten] The Americas Volume 72, Number 1, January 2015 pages 159-160 Nicole von Germeten, Associate Professor of History Oregon State University Rappaport, Joanne, The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Durham: Duke University…
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The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada by Joanne Rappaport (review) [Roland review] Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 13, Number 3, 2014 pages 253-255 DOI: 10.1353/lag.2014.0045 L. Kaifa Roland, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Colorado, Boulder Joanne Rappaport, The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New…
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Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes culled from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century archives of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia) to show that individuals classified as “mixed” were not…
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‘Passing’ in colonial Colombia Havard University Gazette 2009-02-12 Corydon Ireland, Harvard News Office Racial categories today are self-evident — part of what social scientists might call “socially constructed discourse.” Contemporary people of one race are aware of what other races look like, as well as where they themselves belong in the racial scheme of things.…
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“Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto”: Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Bogotá Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 601-631 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416648 Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Anthropology Georgetown University My objective in this article is to examine the relationship between perception and classification in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Andes,…