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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…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?

    Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a “racial…

  • Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition

    Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition Penn State Press 2001 (Originally published in 1992) 232 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-271-02172-0 F. James Davis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology Illinois State University Winner of the 1992 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in…

  • Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community

    Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community Penn State Press 1995 206 pages 6 x 9 cloth: ISBN 978-0-271-01430-2 paper: ISBN 978-0-271-02124-9 Judy Scales-Trent, Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, Professor Emerita State Univerisity of New York at Buffalo Law School “I remember one time in particular, after the cab I…