Putting Race Back in History: History and Discourse in Studies of Diaspora Blacks:Disparate Dia.sporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community.;Panama's Poor: Victims, Agents, and Historymakers.;Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy-in Brazil.;Race and Ethnicity in Latin America.

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor W. Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Racial Democracy

scholarly journals Debt and Destruction: The Global Abuse of Haiti and Unbalancing the Myth of Benevolent Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Sabrina Uwase
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Racial Democracy ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Cyclical Pattern ◽  
Authentic Development ◽  
Colonial Legacies

An integral responsibility of nation-states is to provide protection and the means for attaining a fulfilling life to those it governs. Given the fact that most current global powers were not founded with the needs of racialized peoples in mind, one is infuriated but not surprised, at the cyclical pattern of disregard and exploitation that people of colour in the Americas experience. Indigenous and Black communities in the Americas are not just disregarded by the state, but are actively targeted for exploitation and undermining. Analyzing Haiti’s post-colonial history and Canada’s domestic and international mining operations, I argue that nations in the Caribbean and Latin America have been extensively exploited economically by imperial powers, and their survival undermined by colonial legacies. Numerous countries in the region, to varying degrees, continue to experience the wrath of state-sponsored white supremacy and crippling debt that prevent authentic development. I advance the position that coerced debt and resource extraction have been weaponized against already ostracized communities by behemoth states that employ the myth of being a post-racial democracy. This paper also highlights a complex set of global relationships by linking extraction, state-corporate relations, and North-South divides, with a focus on Canadian mining in Latin America.

“White” Guadeloupeans of “Mixed” Ancestry

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-115
Author(s):  
Ary Gordien
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
European Ancestry ◽  
Mixed Ancestry ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Partial Analysis ◽  
Semistructured Interviews

This article explores the various ways in which Guadeloupeans of mixed African and European ancestry who are perceived as White self-identify in relation to their family and individual trajectories. This partial analysis is based on half-dozen semistructured interviews carried out in the course of researching nationalism, race, and ethnicity in Guadeloupe. Complicating rigid definitions of Whiteness and White supremacy, this article interprets the intricate meanings of Whiteness in the specific context of Guadeloupe, and its complex articulation with material and symbolic privilege.

Latinx Basketball

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Role ◽  
History Of ◽  
Government Reforms ◽  
Sociopolitical Structures ◽  
Lazaro Cardenas

Research on Latinx athletes and their communities is a significant contribution to sports studies. Recent studies on sports in Latinx communities have highlighted regional teams, transnational relationships, race and ethnicity, and sociopolitical structures. Still, the need continues for more attention on Latinx sport identity and community. Although basketball originated in the United States, the sport played a significant political role in regions throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. For example, in Mexico, President Lázaro Cárdenas (r. 1934–1940) introduced government reforms that included promoting sports; thus, in Oaxaca, Catholic missionaries used basketball as a socialization tool to strengthen relationships in rural communities (see Rios 2008 [cited under Society and Culture]). Rios 2019 (cited under Society and Culture) and Garcia 2014 (cited under History and Geography) are the primary texts dedicated to the history of basketball in Latin America and the importance of basketball to Latinx communities in the United States.

Afterword

2020 ◽  
pp. 229-240
Author(s):  
Kathy Roberts Forde
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
New South ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
New Era ◽  
Nineteenth Amendment ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Racial Democracy

Racial divisions shaped the women’s suffrage movement and inflected much of the journalism that helped suffragists collectively imagine women as political beings, persuade others that women should be directly involved in electoral politics, and secure the vote through ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. These racial divisions proved tragic. If the Nineteenth Amendment ever promised a new era of racial democracy in America, that promise was lost when white suffragists abandoned the citizenship aspirations of black women (and men) in the South to the forces of white supremacy. Henry Grady’s New South ideology veiled coordinated efforts across the Southern states to thwart black political power and institute the “solid South” of white supremacy. In 1920, Mary McLeod Bethune helped lead black Floridians in a voter registration drive—a bold effort to claim black civil rights promised in both the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments. The result was violent voter intimidation across the state and a massacre of black citizens in Ocoee.

scholarly journals Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Cecilia McCallum ◽  
Peter Wade
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race And Ethnicity

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.

scholarly journals "Black Behind the Ears"——and Up Front Too? Dominicans in The Black Mosaic

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ginetta E.B. Candelario
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
African American History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Immigrants ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Historical Presence

This article considers the formation and representation of Washington, D.C.'s Dominican community in the Anacostia Museum's 1994 -1995 exhibit, Black Mosaic: Community, Race and Ethnicity Among Black Immigrants in D.C. The exhibit successfully pointed to the extensive historical presence of African Diaspora peoples in Latin America and explored the development of subsequent Diaspora from those communities into Washington, D.C. The case of Dominican immigrants to D.C., however, illustrates the continued privileging of a U.S.- or Anglo-centric ideation of African-American history and identity. I argue that a more accurate and politically useful formulation would call for an understanding that the African Diaspora first arrived in what would become Santo Domingo and was constitutive of Latin America several centuries before the arrival of Anglo colonizers and the formation of what would become the United States; that slavery was a polyfacetic institution that articulated with particular colonial and imperial systems and local economies in the Americas in ways that subsequently influenced racial orders and identities in multiple ways, both at home and in Diaspora; and that Dominicans' negotiations of the competing demands of blackness and Latinidad make these points especially salient.

A Kitchen Table Pedagogy for Interrogating Whiteness through a Research Experience Course

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Friedman ◽  
Laurel Graham
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Kitchen Table ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Study Participants

After sociology undergraduates have learned about inequalities in their substantive courses, a research experience course in which they critically apply these concepts can be invaluable for fostering deep learning. Coteaching a sociological research experience for undergraduates course three times, the authors witnessed the emergence of an emotional connection to critical perspectives on race and ethnicity that enabled students to analyze and creatively apply these concepts to their research projects. The inquiry-based course was built around the authors’ current research project on how families with tween and/or teen children manage food provisioning. Although the course was not explicitly about race or whiteness, many students could relate to the marginalization felt by study participants because of their own ethnicity or race, leading the whole class to become a cohesive team that was attuned to the power of white supremacy in food discourse. Here the authors describe two key assignments they believe were essential components of the course: (1) writing and sharing your food autobiography and (2) analyzing “what’s interesting here?” to find themes in the interview data. The authors found that the intercultural sensitivity cultivated in the first weeks of the course through personal storytelling carried forward into the interviewing process, into the grounded theory discussions that took place in the classroom, and into the students’ final research projects. The result was that each semester, students interrogated the whiteness of American food discourse by studying the forms of difference embedded in the food stories of themselves and of the study participants.

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