Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: The Americas
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Alison Fraunhar discerningly examines how the mulata has been represented and performed in Cuban visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present. She analyzes a variety of visual media, from prints and paintings to film and photography, to demonstrate how the identity and stereotypes of the mulata developed within popular culture and the national…
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Calidad, Genealogy, and Disputed Free-colored Tributary Status in New Spain The Americas Volume 73, Number 2, April 2016 pages 139-170 Norah Andrews, Assistant Professor of World History Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey In 1787, a group of Indians from the town of Almoloya, part of Apan in the Intendancy of Mexico, aired their grievances…
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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico by Ileana Rodríguez-Silva (review) The Americas Volume 72, Number 4, October 2015 pages 655-657 Isar Godreau, Researcher Interdisciplinary Research Institute University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana M., Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico (London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,…
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Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora by Bénédicte Boisseron (review) The Americas Volume 72, Number 4, October 2015 pages 661-664 John Patrick Walsh, Assistant Professor of French University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania In this outstanding book, Bénédicte Boisseron challenges received ideas on Caribbean literature and critical paradigms that have sedimented…
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The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada by Joanne Rappaport (review) [von Germeten] The Americas Volume 72, Number 1, January 2015 pages 159-160 Nicole von Germeten, Associate Professor of History Oregon State University Rappaport, Joanne, The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Durham: Duke University…
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Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality by Michael J. Montoya (review) [Wentzell] The Americas Volume 71, Number 1, July 2014 pages 179-181 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2014.0105 Emily Wentzell, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Iowa Montoya, Michael J., Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality (Berkeley: University of…
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Notaries of Color in Colonial Panama: Limpieza de Sangre, Legislation, and Imperial Practices in the Administration of the Spanish Empire The Americas Volume 71, Number 1, July 2014 pages 37-69 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2014.0082 Silvia Espelt-Bombín University of St Andrews, United Kingdom On July 20, 1740, King Philip V of Spain was given paperwork regarding a dispute…
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Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World by John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris (review) The Americas Volume 69, Number 4, April 2013 pages 532-533 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2013.0017 James Sidbury, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities Rice University John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris, eds., Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in…
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“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…
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Indian Lords, Hispanic Gentlemen: The Salazars of Colonial Tlaxcala The Americas Volume 69, Number 1, July 2012 pages 1-36 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2012.0060 Peter B. Villella, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro In 1773, a Mexico City expert in gold embroidery named don José Mariano Sánchez de Salazar Zitlalpopoca petitioned for a license to…