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12. In Brazil racism takes many hues
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pitts,Leonard (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 12-Jul 18, 2007
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Beacon
- Journal Title Details:
- 28 : 13
- Notes:
- In this, he's not unlike his counterparts in the United States, where black people also have an extensive vocabulary to describe variations in skin tone. In the United States, one can be "high yellow" (i.e., of very light skin); one can be "red" (i.e., with a reddish tint; one of Malcolm X's early nicknames was "Detroit Red"); or one can be any of a number of synonyms for dark. Like, for instance, "Smokey." In fact, the famous (and "high yellow") Motown singer William Robinson was given that nickname in affectionate irony by one of his father's friends - sort of like calling a fat guy Tiny. The same is not true in Brazil. And if the United States is a country where black people with light skin used to sometimes "pass," i.e., pretend to be white, well, in this country "passing is a national institution." So says Elisa Nascimento with a laugh. She is white, American-born and the wife of Abdias do Nascimento, a 90-year-old black Brazilian artist and political icon. And the insistence of some Brazilian blacks on "passing," she says, has political consequences in that it tends to distort statistics on black life. "The way racism works in Brazil . . . there is a hierarchy, and so people tend to identify themselves lighter than they necessarily would be." "It was a rough time," she says in her imperfect English. "For me, was impossible to live there. We could not be married. Why I married with a black guy, you know? So when I say to you that Brazil was different . . . even my first husband didn't think of himself as black. In Brazil, he was a Brazilian, even though he was black. He never thought of himself as someone different from me because he was another color."
13. Intersectional work and precarious positionings: Black middle-class parents and their encounters with schools in England
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vincent,Carol (Author), Rollock,Nicola (Author), Ball,Stephen (Author), and Gillborn,David (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Studies in Sociology of Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(3) : 259-276
- Notes:
- Reports on data drawn from a study exploring the educational strategies of 62 Black Caribbean heritage middle-class parents. Considers the roles of race and class in the shaping of parents' educational strategies.
14. 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.
15. Locational Returns to Human Capital Levels: The Case of black African and black Caribbean Immigrants
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Argeros,Grigoris (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- New York: Fordham University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 155 p., The present dissertation examines nativity-status and place-of-birth-differences in locational outcomes among native-born black American, and foreign-born black Caribbean and black African households. The main objective is to evaluate the degree to which the spatial assimilation model, which was formulated to capture the experience of white European ethnic groups arriving to the U.S. during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, can describe the outcomes of black immigrant ethnic groups arriving to the U.S. in the late twentieth century. Using data from the five percent Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) of the 2000 Census extracted from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), I investigate the degree to which native-born black Americans and foreign-born black Caribbeans and black Africans are able to translate their individual-level socioeconomic status attainments, such as income and educational levels, into residence in suburban versus central-city neighborhoods. In addition I also test to see if black immigrants' returns to their socioeconomic attainments differed from those of native-born blacks. This study contributes to the literature on immigrant socioeconomic and locational attainment in three ways. First, it revisits traditional residential assimilation theories, and attempts to identify the factors that enable black immigrants to reside in qualitatively different neighborhoods compared to those in which native-born black Americans reside. Second, it examines intra-ethnic black locational outcomes by place-of-birth/national origin status. Finally, up-to-date census data will provide an updated snapshot of black immigrants' socioeconomic and residential status attainments, an important endeavor given the large increase in size and diversity for this population.
16. Main themes in twentieth-century Afro-Hispanic Caribbean poetry: a literary sociology
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Roberts,Nicole (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 312 p., Argues for inclusion of more Afro-Hispanic poets in the Caribbean literary canon. This book offers an introductory overview of the literary tradition of Black writing in the Hispanic Caribbean. It also provides a survey of black poets.
17. Mariategui, the Comintern, and the Indigenous Question in Latin America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Becker,Marc (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Science & Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 70(4) : 450-479
- Notes:
- Victorio Codovilla, the leader of the Comintern's South American Secretariat, instructed José Carlos Mariátegui, a Peruvian Marxist who had gained a reputation as a strong defender of marginalized Indigenous peoples, to prepare a document for a 1929 Latin American Communist Conference analyzing the possibility of forming an Indian Republic in South America. This republic was to be modeled on similar Comintern proposals to construct Black Republics in the southern United States and South Africa. Mariátegui rejected this proposal, asserting that existing nation-state formation was too advanced in the South American Andes to build a separate Indian Republic. Mariátegui, who was noted for his 'open' and sometimes unorthodox interpretations of Marxism, found himself embracing the most orthodox of Marxist positions in maintaining that the oppression of the Indian was a function of their class position and not their race, ethnicity, or national identity. From Mariátegui's point of view, it would be better for the subaltern Indians to fight for equality within existing state structures rather than further marginalizing themselves from the benefits of modernity in an autonomous state. Mariátegui's direct challenge to Comintern dictates is an example of local Party activists refusing to accept Comintern policies passively, but rather actively engaging and influencing those decisions.
18. Mulheres negras e näao negras vivendo com HIV AIDS no Estado de Säao Paulo - um estudo sobre suas vulnerabilidades
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lopes,Fernanda (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- Departamento de Epidemiologia da Faculdade de Saúde, Pública da Universidade de São Paulo
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 175 p, The study sought to compare vulnerability to recurrent infections and illness among women living with HIV/AIDS. The study group was composed of 1068 volunteers, over 18 years of age (526 non-Black and 542 Black women) being attended by three public services, which are references for the treatment of STD/AIDS within the State of Sao Paulo during the period between September 1999 and February 2000.
19. Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Phillip's Cambridge
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Halloran,Vivian Nun (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2006
- Published:
- Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
- Journal Title Details:
- 21 : 87-104
20. 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.
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