... the cultural differences between the groups is the Mestizos’ belief in racial supe- riority, inherited from the Spanish colonizers, an identity based on “being.” Local Nahua culture includes an element of being, in the sense of sharing places of origin, but the strongest cultural element is one...

... worked on small farms producing ginger, yucca for cazabe flatbread, and corn. Colonial poverty encour- aged a more paternalistic style of slavery than in the more prosperous neighboring plan- tation economies, where racial boundaries articulated along patterns of labor segmenta- tion. Vega...

...Jan Hoffman French Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil. By jonathan w. warren. Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires,Nations. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxii, 363 pp...

...Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp Nación y extranjería: La exclusión racial en las políticas migratorias de Argentina, Brasil, Cuba, y México. Edited by Yankelevich Pablo . Mexico City : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , 2009 . Notes. Bibliographies . 308 pp. Paper . Copyright...

...Paulina L. Alberto Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 When Rio Was Black: Soul Music, National Culture, and the Politics of Racial Comparison in 1970s Brazil Paulina L. Alberto The press came down hard on me because the attitude of the album was black and at the...

...F. Arturo Rosales Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848–1912 . By Mora Anthony . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 379 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews...

...María Elena Díaz Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality . By Domínguez Esteban Morales . Edited and translated under the direction of Prevost Gary and Nimtz August . New York : Monthly Review Press , 2013 . Glossary. Notes. Index. 244 pp. Paper , $19.95...

...Herbert S. Klein Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico. By jay kinsbruner. Durham:Duke University Press, 1996. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 176 pp. Cloth, $44.95. Paper, $15.95. 2000 by Duke...

...Deborah Poole 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 An Image of “Our Indian”: Type Photographs and Racial Sentiments in Oaxaca, 1920–1940 Deborah Poole On February 12, 1933, the front cover of the popular Sunday magazine El Oaxaqueño featured a photograph of a boy perched atop a...

...Lisandro Pérez Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823–1957 . By Mirabal Nancy Raquel . Culture, Labor, History Series . New York : New York University Press , 2017 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 311 pp. Paper...

...Micah Wright The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola . By Milagros Ricourt . Critical Caribbean Studies . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 2016 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 187 pp...

... article highlights how Cuban revolutionary leaders, Afro-Cubans, and African Americans exploited temporary transnational relationships to fight local battles. Claiming that the Cuban Revolution had eliminated racial discrimination, INIT invited world champion boxer Joe Louis and 50 other African Americans...

... statistics as the key measures of national progress and lobbied for government investment in primary schools to ensure the advancement of the nation. By the 1920s, the DGE looked instead to immigration and racial statistics to measure progress and advocated cultural and biological “whitening” of the...

... treatment of racial identification as a fixed and self-evident determinant of social status or behavior, we treat it as a flexible social outcome. We find that though white identification is largely shaped by skin color, it is also shaped by national context, social status, and age. We discover that white...

... be morally indebted to abolitionists and their successors. The politics of gratitude thus provided the ideological structures through which liberal reformists could preserve a racialized and patriarchal social order in the absence of slavery. In the process, liberals also constituted themselves as...

... highlights transformations in church governance, popular devotion, and racial politics in late nineteenth-century Brazil. The article documents the local impact of Romanization (ca. 1850–1960), the effort by papal authorities and Catholic Church officials in Brazil to create greater conformity in ritual and...

... on and was instrumental to racial hierarchy and discrimination against Chinese. As leaders of anti-Chinese committees, chineras , pelonas , voters in newspaper contests, and Independence Day Queens, Sonoran women acted both within and against evolving notions of ideal Mexican womanhood, an ideal that...

... were central to articulating divergent political agendas and defining national differences as racial differences. Chilean tales about emancipating Chinese slaves affirmed Chile's superiority over despotic Peruvians. Moreover, in stories about a Chinese oath, Chileans affirmed their civilizing mission...

.... Abolitionist performances, then, challenged the institution of slavery but left unscathed cultural assumptions about racial difference and hierarchies. Abolitionist performances, dynamic and complex, became a crucial vehicle for spurring popular political mobilization in the 1880s, a practice that reverberated...

...Alejandra Boza Villarreal Abstract In Costa Rican historiography, Talamanca has often been considered one of the country's most isolated areas for two main reasons: it is a border region with a significant indigenous population within a nation that has defined itself racially as white, and its...