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  • Mexican Costumbrismo: Race, Society, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Art

    “Mexican Costumbrismo” reorients current understanding of this key period in the history of Mexican art by focusing on a distinctive genre of painting that emerged between 1821 and 1890: costumbrismo.

  • “I Don’t See Color” Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege

    Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to…

  • Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality

    Brazil’s traditionally agrarian economy, based initially on slave labor and later on rural labor and tenancy arrangements, established inequalities that have not diminished even with industrial development and urban growth. While fertility and infant mortality rates have dropped significantly and life expectancy has increased during the past thirty years, the gaps in mortality between rich…

  • Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was Brazil’s foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a mulatto, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians.

  • Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Penn State University Press 2005-08-18 304 pages 6 x 9, 8 illustrations/5 maps Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-02693-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-271-02694-7 Elizabeth W. Kiddy, Associate Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania Blacks of the Rosary tells the…