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Commentators have suggested that Nella Larsen’s Passing rejects the view that there is some sort of black essence. I want to challenge this reading. Since Irene is the most vocal advocate of an essence in respect to which all blacks are... more
From the last quarter of the sixteenth century until 1850, most of Brazil and Angola formed a South Atlantic System sustained by an intercolonial trade that complemented, albeit often contradictorily, exchanges between these regions and... more
This article studies from a longue durée perspective the articulation of anti-slavery sentiments and other socio-racial sensibilities within the Spanish Atlantic, from the first theological criticisms of the 16th century to the efforts... more
The aim of this paper is to clarify the role that Cuban intellectuals gave the black population in the process of construction of the Cuban identity. The novelty of this research is that it deepens the understanding of this issue through... more
The term “mulatto,” meaning an offspring of one black parent and one white parent, is a racist term etymologically derived from the Spanish word “mulatto” meaning a young mule. The mule, a sterile offspring of a mare and a male donkey, is... more
"Bonnie Claudia Harrison, PhD Assistant Professor of Anthropology, City Colleges of Chicago Abstract for “The Creole Vision of Archibald Motley” Roots of the Black Chicago Chicago Renaissance Richard Courage and Christopher Reed, eds.... more
The presence of the mulatto figure in American literature in the time of slavery and during the age of emancipation served to blur the racial line between black and white, enabling an exploration of the social and sexual relations between... more
This thesis, following a textual analysis, examines the chief protagonist, Huckleberry Finn, in Mark Twain’s novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from African-American multiculturism perspectives. Although the novel is mostly about a... more
This article focuses on the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987). It is my goal to demonstrate how Freyre applied Nietzschean ideas to his interpretation of Brazilian society in an attempt to concretize the prophecy of the... more
Color and race are important references for assessing the privileges and barriers that sustained or impeded the social ascension of New Christians, Africans, Indians, and mestiços in the Portuguese world. Questions of race and color had... more
Color and race are important references for assessing the privileges and barriers that sustained or impeded the social ascension of New Christians, Africans, Indians, and mestiços in the Portuguese world. Questions of race and color had... more
En esta investigación se utilizan las cartas escritas por Miguel Enríquez con el fin de trazar sus redes sociales, un sistema de conexiones que no tan sólo trascendió los límites de Puerto Rico sino que también alcanzó gobernadores,... more
Under contract, University of Virginia Press, Writing the Early Americas Series. Reckoning with Race in the New World represents the merging of my two principal research fields when I wear my early (Latin) Americanist hat: the history... more
An attempt at charitable analysis of what Rachel Dolezal was up to.
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