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

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.

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.

scholarly journals Out-of-Pocket Expenditure: The Need for a Gender Analysis

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Household Spending ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Universal Health ◽  
Gender Lens

The main purpose of this publication is to advocate for the need to understand the gendered nature of vulnerabilities to poor health. Gender equality in health is an integral dimension of sustainable development, and it is critical to apply a “gender lens” to all aspects of the health system, including financing mechanisms in health. The impact of health-related out-of-pocket expenditure (OPE) on household poverty has been a significant factor driving the move toward universal health coverage across much of Latin America and beyond. However, not only do health care users still face a broad range of health-related OPEs that can contribute to the impoverishment of households, but the gender dimensions of OPEs have received very little attention. Drawing primarily on data from Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Peru, this report offers an in-depth analysis of the gender dimensions of health-related OPEs in Latin America. It highlights the limitations of survey data in determining levels of household spending on health as well as the potential failure of indicators to capture the impacts of coping strategies that households adopt to pay for OPEs. This publication calls for the application of an intersectional analysis to ensure a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which other social identity markers, such as race and ethnicity, alongside gender shape the ability of individuals and households to respond to the different OPEs they may encounter. Until policymakers consider the issue through a gender lens, OPE will continue to limit the potential of universal health care coverage to effectively address health inequalities.

International Comparisons and Policy Debates

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Iceland
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Ethnic Inequality ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Inequality

This chapter discusses how different countries view race and ethnicity, including different approaches to conceptualizing and measuring racial and ethnic groups. It then examines racial and ethnic inequality in various settings—focusing mainly (though note solely) on peer countries of the U.S. in the OECD as well as in Latin America. It ends with a discussion of policy responses to racial and ethnic diversity, including debates about multiculturalism vs. assimilation and about affirmative action. The goal of this chapter is to broaden our understanding of how different contexts shape patterns of racial and ethnic inequality, and thus to provide a global perspective to U.S. conversations about these issues.

scholarly journals Beyond Benedict Anderson: Nation-Building and Popular Democracy in Latin America

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiel Baud
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Beyond Imagined Communities. Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Ed. by Sara Castro-Klarén and John Charles Chasteen. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington DC; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore [etc.] 2003. 280 pp. $45.00. (Paper: $22.95.)Boyer, Christopher Robert. Becoming Campesinos. Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920–1935. Stanford University Press, Stanford (Cal.) 2003. xii, 320 pp. Ill. £45.95.Forment, Carlos A. Democracy in Latin America, 1760–1900. Volume I, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru. [Morality and Society Series.] University of Chicago Press, Chicago [etc.] 2003. xxix, 454 pp. Maps. $35.00; £24.50.Larson, Brooke. Trials of Nation Making. Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810–1910. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2004. xiii, 299 pp. Ill. Maps. $70.00; £45.00. (Paper: $24.99; £17.99.)Studies in the Formation of the National State in Latin America. Ed. by James Dunkerley. Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, London, 2002. 298 pp. £14.95; € 20.00; $19.95.

scholarly journals The First Latina Hackathon

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor Beltrán
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Final Section ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Critical Site

An event advertised as the first all-women’s hackathon in Latin America was held in México in 2015. Highly ephemeral but also highly visible, the hackathon functions as a critical site to examine how communities crystallize and evaporate, and how participants actively negotiate their hacker identities and practices across boundaries of nation, gender, race, and ethnicity. Popular discourse poses inclusivity within maker/hacker groups by proposing ways to get different or “diverse” participants to join events aimed at empowering their communities. I explore how members of marked groups are called upon to construct and manage these differences themselves within hacker spaces and “maker” formations. I first highlight how participants at the women’s hackathon aligned themselves with structures of expertise as they negotiated normative constructions of gender and femininity. Hackers continue these negotiations when they get caught up in Mexican nationalist pushes for productivity. In the final section, I unpack a surprise visit by abuelitas (grandmothers), who taught everyone a lesson on the invisibilized labor that supports communities of hackers. In a space usually reserved for young makers who understand “new” technologies, they claimed their space within “progress” and reasserted undervalued domestic work as foundational for other type of work. By weaving these three threads together ethnographically, I suggest the ways in which differences become important as Latina hackers differentially position themselves, but also align themselves, with the contradictions of treating code work as coded labor.

Race and ethnicity in Latin America

1997 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 838-838
Author(s):  
Lucy Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race And Ethnicity

Whitewashing diverse voices: (de)constructing race and ethnicity in Spanish-language television dubbing

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372199993
Author(s):  
Laurena Bernabo
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
The Many ◽  
Television Characters

When television programs are translated for global audiences, languages are changed, but so too are constructions of diverse identities. Characters who are Black, Indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC) undergo transformations in order to be intelligible outside of their original national contexts; such transformations might reinforce these characters’ difference or eliminate it, effectively whitewashing BIPOC voices. This article unpacks this phenomenon by investigating the translation of diverse characters through the lens of the many industrial norms and constraints that shape the dubbing industry. Using the international Fox hit Glee (2009–2015) as an entry point for exploring the role of dubbing in Latin America, this study complicates conventional notions about global media’s imperialist and hybridizing implications by tracing political economy and industrial practices onto the dubbing of Black, Latinx, and Asian television characters.

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