Analyzing representations of multiracial figures in popular culture, Ralina L. Joseph identifies two widespread stereotypes of mixed-race African Americans: those of ""the new millennium mulattas"" and ""the exceptional multiracials.""
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The author critiques the depictions of multiracial Americans in contemporary culture.
Compilación de artículos que aspiran a establecer una nueva base teórica para los estudios sobre Cuba en ámbitos como la teoría cultural, la literatura, el cine, el teatro, la pintura, la "border culture" y la música.
"How do today's Latin American elites understand and relate to ideas of power, race, ethnicity, and mestizaje? And what impact does that understanding have on the dynamics of socioeconomic development in ethnically mixed societies? Focusing on the case of Ecuador - a country str…
"How do today's Latin American elites understand and relate to ideas of power, race, ethnicity, and mestizaje? And what impact does that understanding have on the dynamics of socioeconomic development in ethnically mixed societies? Focusing on the case of Ecuador - a country str…
Jose Vasconcelos' about-face on the cosmic race -- Caribbean counterpoint and mulatez -- Tango in black and white -- Showcasing mixed race in Northeast Brazil -- Dis/encounters in the labyrinths.
This multifaceted and beautifully written ethnography of Maxcanu, a small Maya town in the Yucatan region of Mexico, offers both an historical and a contemporary understanding of the way external pressures to modernize are often met with forms of resistance that are rooted in ri…
