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2. 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.
3. Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not (quite) the United States...and Racial Politics in Brazil?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Silva,D. Ferreira da (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- February, 1998
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social Identities
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(2) : 201-234
- Notes:
- Studies of racial subordination in Brazil usually stress the puzzling co-existence of racial inequality with Brazil's self image as a racial democracy. Frequently, they identify the absence of racial conflict and a clear white black distinction as explanations for the low level of black political mobilization. In doing this, these studies unreflectedly take the United Sates as a universal model of racial subordination of which Brazilian difference is a mere variation.
4. Institutions, inculcation, and black racial identity: pigmentocracy vs. the rule of hypodescent
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Middleton,Richard T. IV (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social Identities
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(5) : 567-585
- Notes:
- "This research paper investigates the effect political institutions have on black racial identity. In particular, I study individual inculcation in contexts where political institutions institutionalize either of two forms of racial social structures - a pigmentocracy (the Dominican Republic), or the rule of hypodescent (the US South), and the effect such inculcation has on black racial identity." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
5. Slavery, black peasants and post‐emancipation society in Brazil (nineteenth century Rio De Janeiro)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gomes,Flávio Dos Santos (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2004 11/01; 2012/05
- Published:
- Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social Identities
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(6) : 735-756
- Notes:
- From the analysis of archival material about small farming communities, in the northern region of the State of Rio de Janeiro, during slavery and in the period immediately post?emancipation, this article revisits the intersection of race and class by showing how slaves, indigeneous peoples, and freed men and women have been an integral part of the constitution of this country's rural classes. By identifying a variety of socio?economic and cultural ties between communities of runaway slaves, quilombos (maroon settlements), slave and freed peasants and slaves' autonomous economic activities in the plantation, this article departs from tradition historiography of Brazilian peasantry and shows how its history cannot be separated from of the history of the black Brazilian peasantry. More importantly, it describes how black historical experiences in Brazil has been constitutive of a complex peasant economic sector.; From the analysis of archival material about small farming communities, in the northern region of the State of Rio de Janeiro, during slavery and in the period immediately post?emancipation, this article revisits the intersection of race and class by showing how slaves, indigeneous peoples, and freed men and women have been an integral part of the constitution of this country's rural classes. By identifying a variety of socio?economic and cultural ties between communities of runaway slaves, quilombos (maroon settlements), slave and freed peasants and slaves' autonomous economic activities in the plantation, this article departs from tradition historiography of Brazilian peasantry and shows how its history cannot be separated from of the history of the black Brazilian peasantry. More importantly, it describes how black historical experiences in Brazil has been constitutive of a complex peasant economic sector.
6. Social identity in the modern United States Virgin Islands
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Roopnarine,Lomarsh (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Nov 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(6) : 791-807
- Notes:
- The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) is a complex society with multiple diverse ethnic groups: Black Virgin Islanders, Eastern Caribbean islanders, Puerto Ricans, Spanish Dominicans, French Islanders, Americans (Continentals), Arabs and Asians. These ethnic differences as well as United States cultural imperialism have stymied any uniform Virgin Islands identity. Nonetheless, social identity in the USVI can be conceptualized into the bi-level structural analysis of national and trans-Caribbean.