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2. Brazilian Abolitionism, Its Historiography, and the Uses of Political History
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Needell,Jeffrey D. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- May, 2010
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Latin American Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 42(2) : 231-261
- Notes:
- Explanations of the Abolitionist movement's success in Brazil (1888) have, since the 1960s and 1970s, emphasized the movement's material context, its class nature, and the agency of the captives. These analyzzes have misunderstood and gradually ignored the movement's formal political history. Even the central role of urban political mobilisation is generally neglected; when it is addressed, it is crippled by lack of informed analysis of its articulation with formal politics and political history. It is time to recover the relationship between Afro-Brazilian agency and the politics of the elite. In this article this is illustrated by analysing two conjunctures critical to the Abolitionist movement: the rise and fall of the reformist Dantas cabinet in 1884-85, and the relationship between the reactionary Cotegipe cabinet (1885-88), the radicalisation of the movement, and the desperate reformism that led to the Golden Law of 13 May 1888.
3. Ethnic identity and elite idyll: a comparison of carnival in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, 1900-1920
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McCleary,Kristen (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- July, 2010
- Published:
- Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social Identities
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(4) : 497-517
- Notes:
- This article compares the transformation of carnival celebrations in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay at the beginning of the 20th century. It argues that changes in carnival practices in the River Plate region was linked to the rise of a vacation culture in Montevideo. The article also assesses the historiography on Montevideo's carnival which has cast a negative light on the impact of modernization and the festival. In comparison to Buenos Aires', carnival in Montevideo was fomented by governmental regulation. Finally, the article examines the relationship between carnival and each of the city's African-descent populations.
4. Racial Ideologies, Racial-Group Boundaries, and Racial Identity in Veracruz, Mexico
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sue,Christina A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Nov 2010
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(3) : 273-299
- Notes:
- Recent scholarly interest in the populations of African descent in Latin America has contributed to a growing body of literature. Although a number of studies have explored the issue of blackness in Afro-Latin American countries, much less attention has been paid to how blackness functions in mestizo American countries. Furthermore, in mestizo America, the theoretical emphasis has oftentimes been placed on the mestizo/Indian divide, leaving no conceptual room to explore the issue of blackness.