scholarly journals Corrigendum

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 828-828
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Racial Democracy ◽  
Made In

Silva GM (2016) After racial democracy: Contemporary puzzles in race relations in Brazil, Latin America and beyond from a boundaries perspective. Current Sociology 64(5): 794-812. DOI: 10.1177/0011392115590488 The author would like to draw attention to the following correction. On p.802 of this article, where it is written: “[…] scholars who want to underplay the importance of race in Brazil tend to see this as evidence that race is not as central, or at least not a factor of discrimination for a large percentage of non-whites (Fry, 2005)” This section should read: “[…] scholars who emphasize the convergence of opinions tend to see this as evidence of a more successful policy of cultural integration that illustrates understandings of race as less essentialized (Fry, 2005)”. This correction does not change the main arguments made in the article.

BRAZILIAN RACE RELATIONS, FRENCH SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, AND AFRICAN DECOLONIZATION: A TRANSATLANTIC HISTORY OF THE IDEA OF MISCEGENATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 801-832
Author(s):  
IAN MERKEL
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Racial Democracy ◽  
Transatlantic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Fernand Braudel

AbstractThis article analyzes how debates concerning Brazilian race relations, miscegenation, and racial democracy unfolded in France in the 1950s. During those years, Gilberto Freyre and those critical of him emerged in French social scientific discourse, offering distinct visions concerning race, culture, and the possibility of harmonious coexistence in a world structured by racial, social, and colonial inequalities. Certain French social scientists such as Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel embraced Freyre's vision as a possible source for racial and cultural mixing, whereas others, especially Alfred Métraux and Florestan Fernandes, directly criticized his work. Roger Bastide mediated between the two, translating Freyre's Casa-Grande & Senzala and coauthoring a UNESCO-based study on blacks and whites in São Paulo that largely repudiated Freyre's claims. I argue that in a period in which decolonization was already underway, Freyre piqued the interest of French social scientists looking to overcome the growing antagonism between colonizer and colonized, even if other models of cultural integration and autonomy contested the validity of Brazil's so-called racial democracy.

Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America

1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 681
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Grieb ◽  
Robert Brent Toplin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations

scholarly journals Reconsidering the ‘Decline’ of Dental Student Empathy within the Course in Latin America

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Víctor Patricio Díaz-Narváez ◽  
Ana María Erazo Coronado ◽  
Jorge Luis Bilbao ◽  
Farith González ◽  
Mariela Padilla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Dental Student ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Physician Empathy ◽  
Dental Schools ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Made In

Introduction: The controversy over the presence of empathic decline within the course in students of medicine, dentistry and health sciences in general, has not fully been studied. This controversy could be partially solved if massive studies of empathy levels are made in similar cultural, social and economic contexts.Material and Methods: Empathy levels within the course were studied in eighteen dental schools from six countries in Latin America (2013). The mean of the empathy levels were used to study the behavior between first and fifth academic years. The values of empathy levels within the course were observed by applying the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, the Spanish version. All these studies were cross-sectional. The value of means observed, were subjected to regression studies and further adjustment curves were obtained and the coefficient of determination were calculated.Results: Six different models of behavior were observed, which found that five of them suffer empathic decline within the course, but with different final results: in some the decline persists until the fifth academic year and in others, this decline ‘recovers’ persistently until the fifth academic year. The sixth model is characterized by a constant and persistent increase of levels of empathy within the course until the last academic year.Discussion: There are six different models for the behavior of means of levels of empathy within the course evaluated by a common methodology in eighteen dental schools from six countries of Latin America. These findings support the existence of variability of empathic response and a comprehensive approach is needed to find the causes that give rise to this variability.Conclusion: In dental students of Latin America, there is variability in the behavior of the distribution in means between the academic years of the dentistry schools examined in this study.

Afro-Latin Soul and Hip-Hop

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Nava
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
New World ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores the history of African and Spanish musical fusions. In terms of race relations in the New World specifically, music has frequently been the occasion for an exchange of ideas and sounds that has brought together various cultures, transforming conflicting and clashing relations into harmonious streams of sound. Hence, lingering affinities from medieval Al-Andalus have been the inspiration for African and Spanish conjunctions and collaborations in modern times and have resulted in novel, hybrid inventions, everything from salsa and samba to funk and hip-hop. This chapter focuses on hip-hop within this context, though it also takes a look at the cultural soil of Latin America to appreciate the roots and branches of African and Spanish blends in the New World.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 175-180
Author(s):  
Hannah Gill
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latino Students ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Older Students ◽  
The South ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Made In ◽  
Michael Jackson

It was standing-room only in the South Graham Elementary School (SGE) gym at the “Latin America through the Decades” event on a September evening in 2016. Principal Elizabeth Price welcomed students and their families, speaking Spanish and English in her usual fashion. An audience of more than two hundred people cheered and clapped as kindergarten classes walked onstage wearing white gloves and jean jackets, Michael Jackson– style. They performed choreographed dances to Latin pop music from the 1980s and sang songs with great enthusiasm and huge smiles. Older students followed with different performances highlighting music from the Americas. Afterward, a salsa band appeared onstage and played music as families met teachers and students got stamps on “passports” they had made in school. Despite the fact that the gym was crowded and hot, the audience lingered, laughed, and learned about the extraordinary work of the SGE community, which has embraced learning models that celebrate the heritage and linguistic skills of its Latino students....

Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America

1976 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
John F. Bratzel ◽  
Leslie B. Rout ◽  
Robert Brent Toplin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations

Asphalt Permeability Testing in Virginia

2000 ◽  
Vol 1723 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.W. Maupin
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Acceptable Level ◽  
Permeability Test ◽  
Department Of Transportation ◽  
Asphalt Mixes ◽  
Air Voids ◽  
Virginia Department ◽  
Made In

Because of high air voids, long-lasting damp spots on pavement surfaces, and problems that other states have had with permeable coarse Superpave mixes, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) decided to investigate the permeability of its Superpave mixes. As part of this study, VDOT also tested other asphalt mixes. Falling-head permeability tests were performed on pavement cores to determine the general permeability of the mixes. The permeability of some of the pavement cores was compared with the permeability of specimens made in the laboratory through the use of mixtures sampled during construction to determine whether laboratory specimens could be used to predict pavement permeability. The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine the general magnitude of permeability for mixes being used by VDOT, with an emphasis on Superpave mixes. A large percentage of the field cores contained excessive voids, resulting in excessive permeability. Each mix had a unique voids-permeability relationship. Mixes that were composed of large aggregates required fewer voids to achieve an acceptable level of permeability. In four of five cases, the results of laboratory tests were generally quite successful in indicating field permeability. The preliminary permeability testing demonstrates the importance of achieving low voids in the field and will help in the future development of density specifications and possibly in the establishment of permeability requirements. It is recommended that the permeability test continue to be used to help set such limits.

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