Latin American Perspectives articles from May 1998

Latin American Perspectives archives from May 1998

Mestizaje and the discourse of national/cultural identity in Latin America, 1845-1959.
May 1, 1998... Mestizaje,(1) the process of interracial and/or intercultural mixing, is a foundational theme in the Americas, particularly in those areas colonized by the Spanish and the Portuguese. Such is the scope of mestizaje in Latin American society...

Race, national discourse, and politics in Cuba.
May 1, 1998... "Please, do not speak about races," a reader of the Miami Herald who defined himself as a "Cuban mulatto" requested. "Comments like these do us a lot of harm . . . what you are doing is dividing us" (Suarez, 1994). His was but one of a number...

Inclusion of Afro-Colombians: unreachable national goal?
May 1, 1998... Since July 4, 1991, a new constitution has allowed Colombians to exercise their citizenship by displaying cultural diversity rather than by concealing it as required by the previous political charter. Paradoxically, invisibility continues not...

Skin color, racial identity, and life chances in Brazil.
May 1, 1998... Brazil has long held a special place in comparative studies of race relations and identity. The attention the country has received, especially in the annals of North American social science, derives from its lack of legally sanctioned...

Dancing with the enemy: Cuban popular music, race, authenticity, and the world-music landscape.
May 1, 1998... Up until 1959, Cuba was one of the most influential sources of popular music styles in the world: Cuban dance crazes such as the mambo, chacha, and rumba had swept the Americas and Europe, while in extensive regions of Africa the Cuban son had...

The tribulations of blackness: stages in Dominican racial identity.
May 1, 1998... Los blancos, morenos,/Cobrizos, cruzados/Marchando serenos,/Unidos i osados, La Patria salvemos/De viles tiranos/Y al mundo mostremos/Que somos hermanos. - Juan Pablo Duarte Dominican society is the cradle of blackness in the Americas....

Reconstructing racial identity: ethnicity, color, and class among Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico.
May 1, 1998... When people move across state borders, they enter not only a different labor market and political structure but also a new system of social stratification by class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Migrants bring their own cultural conceptions of...

West Indian identity in the diaspora: comparative and historical perspectives.
May 1, 1998... When West Indians(1) move abroad, they begin to see themselves and others in new ways. Nowhere is this more evident than in the emergence of new racial and ethnic identities. As West Indians travel abroad in search of economic opportunities and...