Fischer reviews the two-volume work Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: social dynamics and cultural transformations, by Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Arlene Torres>
Review the books The Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in Sao Paulo, 1600-1900, by Muriel Nazzari, Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana De Parnaiba, 1580-1822, by Alida C. Metcalf, The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945, by Dain Borges, and Gosto Do Pecado: Casamento E Sexualidade Nos Manuais De Confessores Dos Seculos XVI E XVII, by Angela Mendes de Almeida.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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220 p, Contents: Meanings of the new world order -- A neoliberal model for post-Duvalier Haiti -- The struggle for a democratic alternative: 1986-1990 -- The prophet armed: Jean-Betrand Aristide's liberation theology and politics -- An alternative development model for Haiti -- The Lavalas government and its overthrow: February to September 1991 -- The prophet tamed: the coup d'état and the moderation of Aristide
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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230 p, Ideology and Change provides the first comprehensive record and analysis of the experience of leftist political movements, organizations, and trends in the English-speaking Caribbean. Perry Mars views the Left as a dynamic force that has made indelible contributions toward advancing democracy since the 1940s, and he here examines the contributions of leftist organizations at both theoretical and practical levels. He identifies their role in Caribbean political culture and processes, the problems they face, and the strategies they employ toward political change within a hazardous political and social environment.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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371 p, Contents: Race and class in Mexico / Woodrow Borah -- On the concept of social race in the Americas / Charles Wagley -- Colour prejudice in Brazil / Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- Mass immigration and modernization in Argentina / Gino Germani -- Race, color, and class in Central America and the Andes / Julian Pitt-Rivers -- Beyond poverty : the Negro and the mulatto in Brazil / Florestan Fernandes -- The present status of Afro-American research in Latin America / Roger Bastide -- African culture in Brazilian art / Abdias Do Nascimento -- A comparative study of the assimilation of the Chinese in New York City and Lima, Peru / Bernard Wong -- Ethnicity, secret societies, and associations : the Japanese in Brazil / Takashi Maeyama -- Research in the political economy of Afro-Latin America / Pierre-Michel Fontaine -- Minority oppression : toward analyses that clarify and strategies that liberate / William Bollinger and Daniel Manny Lund -- Brazilian racial democracy : reality or myth? / Carlos Hasenbalg and Suellen Huntington -- Race and class in Brazil : historical perspectives / Thomas E. Skidmore -- Peasant politics and the Mexican state : indigenous compliance in highland Chiapas / George A. Collier -- Black political protest in São Paulo, 1888-1988 / George Reid Andrews -- Challenging the nation-state in Latin America/ Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- Rethinking race in Brazil / Howard Winant
