Mörner,Magnus (Author) and Conference on Race and Class in Latin America (1965: New York, NY.)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1970
Published:
New York: Columbia University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
309 p, Includes Gonzalo Aquirre Beltrán's "The abolition of slavery and its aftermath. The integration of the Negro into the national society of Mexico"; Carlos M. Rama's "The passing of the Afro-Uruguayans from caste society into class society"; Richard Graham's "Action and ideas in the abolitionist movement in Brazil"; Harry Hoetink's "The Dominican Republic in the nineteenth century: some notes on stratefication, immigration, and race"; and Florestan Fernandes' "Immigration and race relations in São Paulo";
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.
Journal Article, Examines the experiences of Afro-Cuban immigrants in non-traditional settlement sites in the Southwest. Drawing on 45 interviews with Afro-Cubans in Austin, Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico, the authors explore how respondents position themselves relative to the local Mexican-origin population. Specifically focuses on the implications of 'Hispanic' identity in these cities as a category that is heavily tied to Mexican origin, 'brownness,' and the suspicion of illegality. As Afro-Cubans, respondents face a different racialization process than many non-black Latino immigrants, in that their blackness marks them as outside the bounds of regional constructions of Hispanic identity.
Journal Article, Uses data from a nationally representative panel survey of Mexican adults to examine the extent of skin color based social stratification in contemporary Mexico. Despite extreme ambiguity in skin color classification, the author finds considerable agreement among survey interviewers about who belongs to three skin color categories. The results also provide evidence of profound social stratification by skin color. Individuals with darker skin tone have significantly lower levels of educational attainment and occupational status, and they are more likely to live in poverty and less likely to be affluent, even after controlling for other individual characteristics.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
189 p., Presents an Afrocentric analysis that acknowledges Mexico's African, Amerindian, Asian, and European ethnic heritages. This work introduces the theory of the widespread Africanization of Mexico from the 16th century onwards. It focuses on the idiosyncrasy of the people who have shaped and continue to carve Mexico and Mexicanness.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
433 p., Based on Spanish and Maya language documents from the 16th through 19th centuries, examines the lives of black African slaves and others of African descent, exploring topics such as slavery and freedom, militia service, family life, witchcraft, and other ways in which Afro-Yucantecans interacted with Mayas and Spaniards.
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By reflecting on the intersections of race, nationality, and the body within the specificities of Black Seminole border culture and history, the essay problematizes Anne Anlin Cheng’s notion of racial melancholia, suggesting that self rejection might be a more strategic move than Cheng acknowledges it to be. In the end, the author coins the term dialectical soundings and proposes that the singing of spirituals among the Black Seminoles in fact operates as such, rendering blackness visible in the context of the Mexican border essentialist racial discourse.
