"Henri de Saussure, représentant d'une illustre famille de scientifiques suisses, voyage au Mexique entre 1854 et 1856 : l'A. s'intéresse moins à l'ample moisson de spécimens de toute nature qu'il réalise qu'à la manière dont il vit son aventure au jour le jour, révélant ses préjugés de classe et d'occidental face au monde latino-américain des Antilles ou du Mexique, qu'il parcourt tambour battant sur les traces du baron de Humboldt." (Refdoc.fr)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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287 p, Eexamines how a number of "foundational" Argentine authors—Echeverría, Mármol, Sarmiento, Ingenieros, Lugones, and others—either repressed the Afro-Argentine past or portrayed Afro-Argentines in profoundly racist ways. José Hernández (Martín Fierro) and Borges, in their allegedly sympathetic treatment of Afro-Argentines, were notable exceptions. The book has some appealing aspects. Extensive excerpts from the authors Solomianski examines—including, in Chapter 7, from nineteenth-century black newspapers and writers—give readers a vivid sense of literary representations of blackness in Argentina. And his analysis of Afro-Argentine characters in twentieth-century films, plays (including the patriotic skits presented in public elementary and high schools), and tangos is revealing and suggestive.
"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];
