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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 772–776.
Published: 01 October 2003
... anthropology),
and other allied disciplines.
Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil. By
Jonathan W. Warren. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 2001. xx +
363 pp...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 751–778.
Published: 01 October 2004
...Rotem Kowner American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Skin as a Metaphor: Early European
Racial Views on Japan, 1548–1853
Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa
The forced opening of Japan by an American squadron in1853–54 provided
the Western world with a long-awaited opportunity...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 397–398.
Published: 01 April 2019
...R. Douglas Cope Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico: Defining Racial Difference . By Robert C. Schwaller . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2016 . xvii +286 pp., illustrations, tables, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth). Copyright 2019...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 775–776.
Published: 01 October 2010
... that the colonial period saw the rise of a few dominant creole fami-
lies, in conjunction with an even smaller group of peninsular Spaniards,
who came to control most aspects of life in the colony, while the native
Maya people and persons of mixed racial heritage remained marginalized.
With the arrival...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 331–332.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of critical debates that were occurring at the time, literally changing the ways that colonial masters interacted with their subaltern subjects. Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia therefore allows us a glimpse into a vanishing world, a time when certainty was part of science, even...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 603–613.
Published: 01 July 2006
... of Oklahoma
Press.
Could This Be Heaven or Could This Be Hell?
Reconsidering the Myth of Racial
Democracy in Brazil
Hal Langfur, State University of New York, Buffalo
The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945.
By Peter M. Beattie. (Durham, NC: Duke...
Journal Article
Indios, Sambos, Mestizos, and the Social Construction of Racial Identity in Colonial Central America
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 269–290.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Samantha R. Billing Abstract The Miskitu, a group indigenous to the Caribbean Coast of Central America, have long been recognized for their racial diversity. In the mid-seventeenth century, a ship of African slaves wrecked on the Mosquito Coast and subsequently intermarried with the Miskitu...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 519–540.
Published: 01 July 2016
... with the Métis strengthened their claims against the HBC. The NWC argued that their agents had formed stable relationships with indigenous peoples and that these alliances constituted a form of legitimacy based on prior usage. The HBC, on the other hand, began to racialize all peoples of mixed background...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Chris Andersen Scholars have long noted the central place of racialization in the last five centuries of colonial rule and likewise the crossracial encounters and eventual colonial intimacies regulated in its shadow. In the conceptual terrain posted by these demarcations, this article explores how...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (3): 423–447.
Published: 01 July 2009
... negotiated ideologies of “Indian blood” during their campaign for inclusion on the Choctaw Nation rolls. Appropriating the racial language of “full-blood” as defined by the Dawes Commission, they claimed citizenship in the Choctaw Nation by virtue of their “unadulterated” ancestry, their ethnicity...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 475–506.
Published: 01 July 2002
... the concept of the autochthonous but to relativize it and detach it from the dominant national paradigm of racialized ethnicity. Its vocation is to explain how villagers can be “authentic” heirs of the land and yet not incur the racially unacceptable category of the “Indian.”Collaboration with a folk...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 371–406.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Mary Ellen Kelm At the turn of the twentieth century, social medicine was emerging as a key contributor to the production of racial hierarchies. At this time, the North American medical community expanded its interest and involvement with native people and applied its beliefs about race and disease...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 497–518.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Maximilian Viatori Abstract This article examines how narratives of historical rupture and crisis maintain, rather than upset, dominant racial hierarchies. An analysis of elite narrations of Ecuador’s border conflicts with Peru and Colombia between 1941 and 2008 demonstrates how such crisis...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 79–98.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Christina Dickerson-Cousin Scholars of black and Indian relations typically characterize the nineteenth century as a period of severe interracial tension. The legacy of slavery and the increasing racial stratification of American society helped to create this friction. However, in Michigan during...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 473–494.
Published: 01 October 2023
... against the Spanish colonial government, threatening to riot, and plotting to “blacken” the population of New Spain by killing Spaniards and forcing racial mixing. Attending to the semantic and morpho-syntactic structure of Nahuatl, this article proposes a linguistic analysis to recontextualize...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 561–583.
Published: 01 October 2011
... the community. This study explores how factional interests in Papantla divided the community across racial lines. It particularly considers how one group of native leaders who opposed a corrupt alcalde mayor (Spanish magistrate) were able to foster his removal from office and how corresponding actions...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 595–619.
Published: 01 October 2016
... and historicity that cannot be easily integrated into the standard frameworks of Atlantic history. Instead of an ocean that united four continents into a single “Atlantic world,” the Shawnee storytellers imagined a kčikami , a dangerous borderland separating radically different cultural, spiritual, and racial...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 473–494.
Published: 01 July 2001
... Americans, and some Native Americans, none of whom are known to have been Houmas. The genesis of the modern group's identity as Houma Indians can be understood as a response to legally sanctioned racial classifications and race discrimination in Louisiana from the late nineteenth century on. American...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 263–289.
Published: 01 April 2010
... with its rituals and texts. Similar to many New Age Andean contexts, the group's cosmology combines an emphasis on the primordial nature of the Andes with an account of benign settlement and colonization. While arguably repressing the trauma of conquest and perpetuating racialized hegemonies, New Age...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 159–176.
Published: 01 January 2007
... of Aguilar's sexual and physical difference, recast in gendered and racialized terms. He used these assertions to make certain claims of categorization that attempted to naturalize the female genitalia and to argue that female anatomical and physiological ambiguity led to sexual deviance. American Society...
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