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Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (2): 408–409.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Mark Q. Sawyer Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil . By Telles Edward E. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2004 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xx , 324 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007...
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Distribution of ethnoracial groups by skin color rating. The mulatto catego...
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in Not Just Color: Whiteness, Nation, and Status in Latin America
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 August 2013
Figure 1 Distribution of ethnoracial groups by skin color rating. The mulatto category includes morenos in Venezuela and mestizos/indios in the Dominican Republic.
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Percentage of persons with light brown skin color (#4) who identify as whit...
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in Not Just Color: Whiteness, Nation, and Status in Latin America
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 August 2013
Figure 2 Percentage of persons with light brown skin color (#4) who identify as white in 17 Latin American countries. Based on regressions for each country with data from 2010 AmericasBarometer.
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Percentages of persons with light brown skin color (#4) who identify as whi...
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in Not Just Color: Whiteness, Nation, and Status in Latin America
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 August 2013
Figure 3 Percentages of persons with light brown skin color (#4) who identify as white at elementary and college levels of education. Based on regressions for each country with data from 2010 AmericasBarometer.
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Percentages of persons with light brown skin color (#4) who identify as whi...
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in Not Just Color: Whiteness, Nation, and Status in Latin America
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 August 2013
Figure 4 Percentages of persons with light brown skin color (#4) who identify as white among 25 and 50 year olds. Based on regressions for each country with data from 2010 AmericasBarometer.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (3): 494–496.
Published: 01 August 1997
... University Press 1997 Whereas Coser connects Morrison with Márquez, in the penultimate chapter, she connects Gayl Jones with another “male and white-skinned” writer, Carlos Fuentes (p. 171). This is because Jones’s work concentrates on Brazil in the colonial era, “using Brazil as a foil to realities...
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Not Just Color: Whiteness, Nation, and Status in Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (3): 411–449.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Figure 1 Distribution of ethnoracial groups by skin color rating. The mulatto category includes morenos in Venezuela and mestizos/indios in the Dominican Republic. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 818–820.
Published: 01 November 1996
.... 175), specifically the historical importance scholars have given to skin color. Lesser asserts that because Jews were categorized as nonwhite before their immigration, Brazilian construction of racial identity can no longer be based exclusively on skin color but must be broadened to include ethnicity...
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Race and Politics in the Dominican Republic
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 803–804.
Published: 01 August 2001
... to examine and “demystify” this racist ideology, perpetuated by what he terms the “light-skinned elites.” Very similar light-skinned elites, he asserts, also monopolize power and exercise hegemonic control over blacks and mulattoes in today’s Cuba and Puerto Rico. As such, the approach of this book dovetails...
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Lo bello en la naturaleza: Alejandro Malaspina; Estética, filosofía natural y blancura en el ocaso de la Ilustración (1795–1803)
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 732–733.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., however, does not fit this interpretation. First, Malaspina sought to ground beauty on skin color, not heads. The entire argument hinged on Matallana's own bodily attraction and pale skin color. There is no reference in these writings to facial angles, for instance. Malaspina's rivals relentlessly mocked...
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“They Are Blacks of the Caste of Black Christians”: Old Christian Black Blood in the Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Iberian Atlantic
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 579–612.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of mulatos applying for travel licenses illuminates how such authorities rarely thought that blackness signified irredeemably stained blood. Instead, their deliberations about individuals' skin color highlight how blackness and West African heritage often signaled Old Christian lineage. When mulatos...
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Making Music and Masculinity in Vagrancy’s Shadow: Race, Wealth, and Malandragem in Post-Abolition Rio de Janeiro
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (4): 591–625.
Published: 01 November 2010
... “occupation prohibited by law or manifestly offensive to morals and good customs.” 1 The antivagrancy campaign was the legal expression of a larger ideologia da vadiagem , a set of ideas and stereotypes evolving over several centuries that linked dark skin and poverty to backwardness. The most...
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“Asi Lo Paresçe Por Su Aspeto”: Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Bogotá
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (4): 601–631.
Published: 01 November 2011
...: indigenous-African or European-African in the Americas, but also European– North African in Spain. However, the same term could also indicate a skin color, which might be used for a range of individuals belonging to various categories. Today, these two meanings of “mulatto” are deployed in everyday practice...
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Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (2): 335–338.
Published: 01 May 2004
... Paulistas against Getúlio Vargas and the rest of Brazil, particularly the dark-skinned Nordestinos who followed him in the brief civil war of 1932. The naked racism of the Paulistas is shocking. They were the sons or grandsons of the poor—largely Italian immigrants who replaced African slaves on the coffee...
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Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 712–714.
Published: 01 November 2015
...). The task was formidable. The PERLA investigators set out to assess the relative importance of race, ethnicity, and skin color to the lives of ordinary people in a region long noted for the fluidity of its racial and ethnic classifications. Their task was further complicated by the often-sporadic recording...
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The Puerto Rico Problem
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (1): 172.
Published: 01 February 1965
... problem could be more accurately stated as chromatophobia. His aversion to colors—red Communism, pink Socialism, and “largely dark-skinned” Puerto Ricans —appears with repetitous monotony in every chapter of this thinly disguised racist diatribe. This spectre of a “steady stream of dark-skinned” migrants...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (4): 659–660.
Published: 01 November 1972
... in 1792, even as the whalers first appeared off the Chilean coast, it reached its peak in 1803 and then, owing to the extermination of the sea mammals, declined as dramatically as it had soared. Yankee ships ostensibly engaged only in whaling or taking on seal skins began, especially after the 1795...
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Entre la marginalidad social y los orígenes de la salud pública: Leprosos, curanderos y facultativos en el Valle Central de Costa Rica (1784–1845)
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 130–131.
Published: 01 February 2005
...David Sowell Malavissi does a fine job situating this project within early Costa Rican history. The social marginality of her argument, however, appears to be quite sound. Still, one is left wondering that since no one was sure of whether a person had leprosy, syphilis, or some other skin...
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Paraná: Social Roundaries in an Argentine City
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (4): 830–832.
Published: 01 November 1975
...John J. Finan Reina’s excellent monograph raises many questions that will doubtless stimulate much further research. Is an overriding characteristic of the close baja darker skin color? What are the national political affiliations of the various social classes and their subdivisions in Paraná...
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Surviving Mexico’s Dirty War: A Political Prisoner’s Memoir
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (4): 714–716.
Published: 01 November 2008
..., and backcountry caciques coexisted uneasily. Radicals dismissed Ulloa, who frowned on assassinations and kidnappings, as a bourgeois revisionist. The author, a handsome, light-skinned city slicker, stood in awe of “real” workers and peasants, whom he sought to emulate during a miserable month in the mountains...
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