Tag: Russell Lohse

  • “La Negrita,” Queen of the Ticos: The Black Roots of Costa Rica’s Patron Saint The Americas Volume 69, Number 3, January 2013 pages 323-355 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2013.0025 Russell Lohse, Assistant Professor of History Pennsylvania State University In sharp contrast to her mestizo and mulatto neighbors, Costa Rica is one of a handful of Latin American countries…

  • Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place Duke University Press September 2010 400 pages 21 photographs, 14 tables, 4 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4787-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4803-0 Edited By: Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mount Holyoke College Justin Wolfe, William Arceneaux Associate Professor of Latin American History Tulane University…