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  • G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), pp. xi + 338, \$74.95, hb. [Gledson Review]

    G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), pp. xi + 338, \$74.95, hb. [Gledson Review] Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 47 / Issue 03 / August 2015 pages 607-608 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X15000528 John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool G. Reginald Daniel,…

  • Rethinking Race in Brazil

    Rethinking Race in Brazil Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 24, Number 1 (February, 1992) pages 173-192 Howard Winant, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Introduction: the Repudiation of the Centenário 13 May 1988 was the 100th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil. In honour of that date, various official celebrations…

  • Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University

    Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University Journal of Latin American Studies Number 41 (2009) pages 221–250 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X09005550 Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Toronto This paper investigates how students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), one of the first Brazilian universities…

  • Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience

    Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience Journal of Latin American Studies 2005 Number 37, Issue 2 Pages 239–257 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05008990 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester The ideology of mestizaje (mixture) in Latin America has frequently been seen as involving a process of national homogenisation and of hiding a reality of racist…

  • Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities

    Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 37, Issue 02 May 2005 pp 259-284 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05009004 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis Through a genealogical analysis of the terms mestizo and mestizaje, this article reveals that these voices are doubly hybrid.…