"On questions of race, Brazil is enigmatic," [David Covin] says. "Brazil sees itself as a racial democracy, with opportunity for everyone. Yet the country portrays itself as white, and the bulk of the population of people of African descent is marginalized -- socially, politically and economically." Blacks are generally considered a majority of the Brazilian population, at least outside Brazil. The United Nations has estimated blacks make up as much as 73 percent of the population, compared to 12 percent in the United States. Brazil's official census, though, shows the black population at about 44 percent, a sign that Brazil's leadership and population place a premium on "whiteness," according to Covin.
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editores de América Latina
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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510 p, Contents: I. LOS ESTUDIOS AFRICANISTICOS EN LA ARGENTINA. Hebe Clementi, "La negritud y la historia americana," p 41-48; Maria Elena Vela, "Historia y actualidad de los estudios," p 49-62; Marisa Pinau, "La ensenanza de historia de Africa subsahariana en la Argentina," p 63-70; M.V. Pereyra de Findanza, "Los que son demsiado negro...", p 71-86. II. LA TRATA DE ESCLAVOS. LA PBLACION AFROARGENTINA. Florencia Guzman, "El destino de los esclavos de la Compania," p 87-108; Silvia C. Mallo, "Mujeres esclavas en America a fines de siglo XVIII," p 109-126; Liliana Crespi, "Utilizacion de mano de obra esclava en areas mineras y subsidarias," p 127-162. III. LA PRESENCIA LINGUISTICA Y LITERARIA. Mario Corcuera Ibanez, "La presencia linguistica y literaria," p 163-168; Dina V. Picotti, "Un modo de pensar y de lenguaje," p 169-198; Beatriz Seibel, "La presencia afroargentina en el espectaculo," p 199-208; Jose Curbelo, "Los payadores negros en el Rio de la Plata," p 209-214.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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304 p, Contents: pt. 1. Gender, work, and residence. Early-twentieth-century Caribbean women: migration and social networks in New York City / Irma Watkins-Owens ; Where New York's West Indians work / Suzanne Model ; West Indians and the residential landscape of New York / Kyle D. Crowder and Lucky M. Tedrow -- pt. 2. Transnational perspectives. Transnational social relations and the politics of national identity: an eastern Caribbean study / Linda Basch ; New York as a locality in a global family network / Karen Fog Olwig -- pt. 3. Race, ethnicity, and the second generation. "Black like who?" Afro-Caribbean immigrants, African Americans, and the politics of group identity / Reuel Rogers ; Growing up West Indian and African American: gender and class differences in the second generation / Mary C. Waters ; Experiencing success: structuring the perception of opportunities for West Indians / Vilna F. Bashi Bobb and Averil Y. Clarke ; Tweaking a monolith: the West Indian immigrant encounter with "Blackness" / Milton Vickerman ; Conclusion: Invisible no more? West Indian Americans in the social scientific imagination / Philip Kasinitz
