{"id":63419,"date":"2022-03-15T21:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63419"},"modified":"2022-03-15T21:08:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:08:41","slug":"edward-telles-afrodescendents-and-the-project-on-race-and-ethnicity-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63419","title":{"rendered":"Edward Telles: Afrodescendents and the Project on Race and Ethnicity in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wFJMTe6ZIKg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Edward Telles: Afrodescendents and the Project on Race and Ethnicity in Latin America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC7ZI9bcWKaDRMOnOS7jagog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BYU Kennedy Center<\/a><br \/>2021-03-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edwardtelles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Edward Telles<\/strong><\/a>, Distinguished Professor of Sociology<br \/><em>University of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wFJMTe6ZIKg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin America\u2019s<\/a> 170 million people of indigenous and African heritage, questions of race, ethnicity, and perceptions of skin color impact issues of equality. Dr. Telles will address his work with PERLA (<a href=\"https:\/\/perla.princeton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America<\/a>), which provides an empirical examination of numerous dimensions of race and ethnicity across Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Edward Telles is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amacad.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a>. He has reoriented the field of Sociology beyond the black-white paradigm prominent in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> through his research and writings on color, race, and ethnicity globally, particularly in Latin America and for Latinos in the United States. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and books, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Watch the presentation (00:57:03) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wFJMTe6ZIKg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Telles: Afrodescendents and the Project on Race and Ethnicity in Latin America BYU Kennedy Center2021-03-04 Edward Telles, Distinguished Professor of SociologyUniversity of California, Irvine For Latin America\u2019s 170 million people of indigenous and African heritage, questions of race, ethnicity, and perceptions of skin color impact issues of equality. Dr. Telles will address his work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,33,13,394,842],"tags":[33252,33251,1893,10885,13934],"class_list":["post-63419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latincarib","category-census","category-liveevents","category-socialscience","category-videos","tag-bringham-young-university","tag-byu-kennedy-center","tag-edward-telles","tag-perla","tag-project-on-ethnicity-and-race-in-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63422,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63419\/revisions\/63422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}