Race, Class and Color: Behind Brazil's "Racial Democracy

Race, Class and Color: Behind Brazil’s “Racial Democracy

Racism has its origins in the elaboration and expansion of a doctrine that justifies inequality among human beings, not so ...
The Marketing of El Cholo Toledo

The Marketing of El Cholo Toledo

The Marketing of El Cholo Toledo In 1990, the now infamous Alberto Fujimori ran for president against the renowned writer ...
Stories of Self-Definition

Stories of Self-Definition

What follows are excerpts-called "Stories of Self-Definitionw-from a number of case studies in Clara E. Rodriguez's Changing Race: Latinos, the ...
Latinos and the “Other Race” Option: Transforming U.S. Concepts of Race. Featuring "Stories of Self-Definition" by Clara E. Rodr

Latinos and the “Other Race” Option: Transforming U.S. Concepts of Race. Featuring “Stories of Self-...

Lurking in the shadows of the news media’s early coverage of the 2000 census numbers was a challenge to the ...
The Resurgence of Racism in Cuba

The Resurgence of Racism in Cuba

“I don’t think you should talk about this topic,” an Afro-Cuban woman replied to a journalist from the popular weekly ...
Only My Hairdresser Knows for Sure": Stories of Race, Hair and Gender

Only My Hairdresser Knows for Sure”: Stories of Race, Hair and Gender

“Once we were all together,” one of the women told me, “and my mother’s friend started calling us names, pointing ...
Contesting the Images of Oppression: Indigenous Views of Blackness in the Americas

Contesting the Images of Oppression: Indigenous Views of Blackness in the Americas

In the mid fifteenth century, sailors under the command of the Portuguese entrepreneur Prince Henry the Navigator began purchasing human ...
Latinos and the “Other Race” Option: Transforming U.S. Concepts of Race. Featuring "Stories of Self-Definition" by Clara E. Rodr

Latinos and the “Other Race” Option: Transforming U.S. Concepts of Race. Featuring “Stories of Self-...

Lurking in the shadows of the news media’s early coverage of the 2000 census numbers was a challenge to the ...