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The Role of Black Women in the Making of a White Argentine Republic

July 2, 2020June 28, 2020 Christina Proenza Coles African Diaspora, Black women, Latin America, Resistance

“The discovery of personal whiteness among the world’s peoples is a very modern thing,” observed W.E.B. Du Bois, “a nineteenth

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Black Deaths and Black Mourning in the Time of Coronavirus

April 20, 2020April 19, 2020 Joan Flores-Villalobos Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx, Caribbean, Latin America, mourning, Panama

That coronavirus (COVID-19) is “the great equalizer” has quickly become an old and tired adage, rightly critiqued by scholars and

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‘Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!’

March 3, 2020March 1, 2020 Hilda Lloréns Activism, African Diaspora, Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx, Afrxlatinidad, black internationalism, Caribbean, Latin America, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, racism

This title is a variation of a statement I have heard during the last two decades as a professional anthropologist.

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Black Roots Tourism in Brazil

November 5, 2019October 26, 2019 Erica Williams African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, Latin America, race, tourism, travel

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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(Anti)Blackness, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, and Guaidó’s Attempted Coup

July 9, 2019September 16, 2019 Layla Brown-Vincent African Diaspora, Afro-Latin, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, Latin America, race, racism

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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