Tag: Past and Present

  • Perception and the Mulatto Body in Inquisitorial Spain: A Neurohistory* Past and Present First published online: 2016-04-16 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtw001 Cristian Berco, Associate Professor of History Bishop’s University, Quebec On 1 July 1625, their hands issuing from Dominican cloaks as black as night, inquisitors in Madrid voted to arrest Luisa Nuñez on suspicion of practising love…

  • Blackness in Argentina: Jazz, Tango and Race Before Perón* Past and Present Volume 216, Issue 1 (August 2012) pages 215-245 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gts008 Matthew B. Karush, Associate Professor of History George Mason University On the question of race and nation, the dominant Latin American paradigm has never applied to Argentina. In Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere, twentieth-century…