The Study of Racialism

He doesn't look that bad in the videos...And he considers himself black too...That should be a plus.

Its the whole "Indio" thing but then you and others have explained that its not about pretending to be Taino rather than African. Its a color description, much as West Indians will descri ...

In the USA not so because we are broken into the black, hispanic boxes and also Cuban exiles are mainly white. Also many Caribbean migrants who left the Caribbean a while ago have missed the increa ...

I've noticed that trend with Latinos of Afrodescendancy. Actually also with those of pred. European ancestry to. If they're raised in areas in which there isn't a significant Latino population, or the ...

In fact Soledad O'Brien, who has ben mentioned on this site, talks about having a part "black" identity, based not on her AngoAmerican father coming from a one drop society, but from her ...

She has that nice hoarse quality a lot flamenco singers have. Nice music.

Wonder what the ratings were for that....Probably not that high.

The issue becomes quite complex and not understood by nonHispanics as compared to Cuba where black, white and mixed categories are accepted and to a large degree even determine culture, style, values ...

Frankly Afrocentricity has been used by the right wing to defame many black areas of scholarship and AA people in general. I believe ONE maybe TWO major scholarly books were written over a decade ago ...

Because they are seen as more black than other places in Latin America and Trujillo's massacre of the Haitians in the 1930s. Hence, issues of color in the DR are seen as worse than Cuba's or PR's bec ...

I believe there is a great deal of hostility and/or intrusive curiosity on the part of AAs and I feel the hostility is largely indulged by many liberals of all colors. I'm 3/4's Southern Italian and a ...

The same would apply to black Dominicans of non-Haitian and non-Anglo-Caribbean stock as well.

The question that needs to be answered is are these people treated radically differently from other ...

Not radically so...In any case, Cuba was arguably the most racially segregated society in Latin America. The clubs were probably a reaction to that.

Through early history, enslavement was common around the world and East Africa was just one more lucrative location. But here the abomination went on longer than any other time or place. The traders ...

Very enlightening details. I can almost imagine the contrast between the Brazil you had in mind and the reality. I cannot help but assume that this trip gave you a much broader and in depth understand ...

Despite being imported as slaves steadily from 1650-1750, that first century of Roma immigration produced no Gypsy communities at all; everyone assimilated into FPC, white, or Indian identities and a ...

Sharia law calls for stoning (or execution) for certain criminal offenses, inlcuding adultery, or what constitutes adultery under Sharia law. The article presumes the existence of some kinder gentler ...

This is posted by the owner of a Haitian forum as well as 2 Haitian members who've lived or visited in DR:

That's right, HX is in the Dominican Republic. Just got off the plane a couple of hours ag ...

In fact under Reagan Balaguer was quite popular among certain US interests.

Could you go into more detail?

CIMMERIAN can you prove that dark skinned Dominicans with negroid features are as common within the business elites of that nation as lighter colored more caucasoid featuired Dominicans? Or is it ...