‘Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!’
This title is a variation of a statement I have heard during the last two decades as a professional anthropologist.
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Latin America
Black Roots Tourism in Brazil
Patricia de Santana Pinho’s Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil is a compelling ethnography that explores the journeys
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Transnational Legacies of Slavery and Revolution in ‘The Black Scholar’
Some months after visiting Havana, Cuba in late fall of 1976, Robert Chrisman — editor-in-chief of the journal The Black Scholar —
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(Anti)Blackness, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, and Guaidó’s Attempted Coup
On January 23, 2019 with the support of US Vice President Mike Pence, Juan Guaidó, a white supremacist, anti-people, opposition
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Staging Habla de Negros: A New Book on Radical Black Performance in Early Modern Spain
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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