Black Brazilian Women and the Lula Administration
This piece was published in the March/April 2007 issue of the NACLA Report. The social sciences produced by black intellectuals ...
To Live and Let Live in South Los Angeles
“Day to day, we all get along,” says South Los Angeles community leader Arturo Ybarra, unintentionally alluding to Rodney King’s ...
The Eighth Encuentro
In November 1999, feminists from throughout the region convened in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic, for the Eighth Latin American and ...
Power, Violence and the Jamaican “Shotta Don
Violence is perhaps the single most discussed issue in many Anglophone Caribbean societies today. The ongoing murders in Jamaica, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Growing Movement: Latin American Feminism
A powerful new political force is on the horizon in Latin America. In recent years, religious, labor and human rights ...
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 ...
