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2. A beleza abre portas: Beauty and the racialised body among black middle-class women in Salvador, Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gordon,Doreen (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Feminist Theory
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(2) : 203-218
- Notes:
- Beauty is constantly lived and incorporated as a meaningful social category in Brazil and intersects with racialised and gendered ways of belonging to the Brazilian nation. Article shows how middle-class women self-identifying as black embody and experience beauty and how, through practices and discourses centered on physical appearance, they both reinforce and challenge broader social and racial inequalities in Brazil.
3. Affective sex: Beauty, race and nation in the sex industry
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rivers-Moore,Megan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Feminist Theory
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(2) : 153-169
- Notes:
- Considers the role of beauty in Costa Rican sex work. While Costa Rica's national mythology has long focused on claims to white origins, sex tourists identify local women's ‘exoticism’ and non-whiteness as particularly appealing. Explores how women experience and manage their sexual attractiveness to foreign tourists in their daily lives and work.
4. Articulations of Eroticism and Race: Domestic Service in Latin America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wade,Peter (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Feminist Theory
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(2) : 187-202
- Notes:
- The sexualisation of racially subordinated people has been linked to the exercise of power. This article focuses on an aspect of subordination related to the condition of being a servant, and the ‘domestication’ and ‘acculturation’ that domestic service implies in societies where black and indigenous people are often linked to ‘backwardness’. Perceived racial otherness, class subordination, gender, age and domesticated servitude together reinforce an erotic image of sexual availability, particularly in younger women.
5. Cuba: Race Matters
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Binns,Leory A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Race, Gender & Class
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(3) : 333-345
- Notes:
- The Cuban journey on race relations denotes an adventure driven by ideology. A doctrine of equals and the need for consensus building towards national unity called for the reversal of disenfranchisement commonly practiced prior to the revolution. Public policy has affirmed a commitment to social integration of people of color yet the residue of bigotry still inflames the Cuban populace and stymies potential maturity among its people.
6. Explaining Racial Disparities in Infant Health in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Nyarko,Kwame A. (Author), Lopez-Camelo,Jorge (Author), Castilla,Eduardo E. (Author), and Wehby,George L. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-04
- Published:
- American Public Health Association
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Public Health
- Journal Title Details:
- 103(4) : 1021
- Notes:
- Seeks to quantify how socioeconomic, health care, demographic, and geographic effects explain racial disparities in low birth weight (LBW) and preterm birth (PTB) rates in Brazil. Methods. Focused on disparities in LBW and PTB prevalence between infants of African ancestry alone or African mixed with other ancestries, and European ancestry alone. Differences in prenatal care use and geographic location were the most important contributors, followed by socioeconomic differences. The model explained the majority of the disparities for mixed African ancestry and part of the disparity for African ancestry alone.
7. La Representacion de Raza y Genero en la Poesia de las Poetas Negras y Mulatas Cubanas (1960s--1980s)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Aleman,Lidice (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- St. Louis, Missouri: Washington University in St. Louis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- This study examines the identity categories of gender and race in the Cuban context of the first thirty years of the Revolution and focuses on black and mulata women, in which both categories converge. In this work I analyze the literary discourse of the Afro-Cuban female poets between the 1960s and 1980s and discern the role of self-representation that each of these poets constructs within the framework of "being black" or "mulata" woman. Also, since gender and race are redefined by the dominant power, this project analyzes the political hegemonic discourse of the period in relation to race and gender, and illuminates its role in preserving racial stereotypes as well as the patriarchal normatives of gender.
8. Raising Middle-class Black Children: Parenting Priorities, Actions and Strategies
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vincent,Carol (Author), Rollock,Nicola (Author), Ball,Stephen (Author), and Gillborn,David (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jun 2013
- Published:
- London, UK: Sage Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(3) : 427-442
- Notes:
- Argues that the task for the researcher is attempting to understand how race and class differently interact in particular contexts. Concludes that a focus on Black Caribbean heritage families can further develop the concept of concerted cultivation, and demonstrate the complex ways in which, for these families, such a strategy is a tool of social reproduction but also functions as attempted protection against racism in White mainstream society.
9. Rape and racial appraisals
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McGuffey,C. Shawn (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2013
- Published:
- New York, NY: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(1) : 109-130
- Notes:
- Using Black women's responses to same-race sexual assault, demonstrates how scholars can use interpersonal violence to understand social processes and develop conceptual models. African and Caribbean immigrants often avoid the language of social structure in their rape accounts and use cultural references to distance themselves from African Americans.
10. The color of sound: Race, religion, and music in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Burdick,John, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2013
- Published:
- New York: New York University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Throughout Brazil, Afro-Brazilians face widespread racial prejudice. Many turn to religion, with Afro-Brazilians disproportionately represented among Protestants, the fastest-growing religious group in the country. Officially, Brazilian Protestants do not involve themselves in racial politics. Behind the scenes, however, the community is deeply involved in the formation of different kinds of blackness—and its engagement in racial politics is rooted in the major new cultural movement of black music. In this account, the complex ideas about race, racism, and racial identity that have grown up among Afro-Brazilians in the black music scene are explored. The author immersed himself for nearly a year in the vibrant worlds of black gospel, gospel rap, and gospel samba in order to better understand racial identity and the social effects of music. Delving into the everyday music-making practices of these scenes, it is shows how the creative process itself shapes how Afro-Brazilian artists experience and understand their racial identities. The results challenge much of what some people thought they knew about Brazil's Protestants, provoking one to think in new ways about their role in their country's struggle to combat racism.