In Review
Cafe Con Leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela by Winthrop R. Wright, University of Texas Press, 1990, 167 pp., $25 (cloth). Venezuelan society is popularly called cafe con leche,...
...As a result, complex social relations are reduced to a conflict between blacks and whites...
...Venezuelan society is popularly called cafe con leche, a nod to the mixed-race origin of most of its people...
...The guide concludes with a number of interactive activities and discussion topics...
...Embedded in this expression is the assumption that miscegenation has led to racial democracy...
...Blacks and Whites in Sho Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988 by George Reid Andrews, University of Wisconsin Press, 1991, 369 pp., $17 (paper...
...The African Exchange: Toward a Biological History of Black People by Kenneth F. Kipple (ed...
...Authors tackle topics as various as the lead poisoning of Caribbean slaves, the spread of smallpox via the slave trade to Brazil, and the high infant and child mortality rates of U.S...
...Curiously, Andrews does not address the knotty issue of racial identity in Brazil, where many mulattos shirk at identification with dark blacks...
...slaves...
...Rejecting the notion of history as a survey of significant events and people, this excellent primer on Latin America examines the region from the perspective of common people...
...Just as the arrival of Columbus to the New World wrought epidemiological peril and ecological change, African slaves sent to toil on the plantations of the Americas brought with them Africa's disease and nutritional environments...
...Faces of Latin America by Duncan Green, Latin America Bureau, 1991, 212 pp., $16 (cloth...
...Dangerous Memories: Invasion and Resistance Since 1492 by Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America, 1991, 272 pp., $19.50 (paper...
...America Negra biannual journal edited by Nina S. de Friedemann, Jaime Arocha Rodrfguez and Jaime Bernal Villegas, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogoti, Colombia, $25/year...
...While meant to debunk the notion of linear history, this layout becomes occasionally cumbersome...
...Photographs and informative charts complement the text...
...In his immensely readable book, Wright argues that although Venezuelans do not suffer overt discrimination, social and political mobility depends on "whitening" and the denial of black heritage...
...Volume 1, Number 1 contains eight articles on such countries as Cuba, Guadeloupe and Colombia, plus chronicles, documents, photos and a calendar of events...
...Among the areas Green examines are land distribution, the environment, women, and urbanization...
...This resource guide for teaching the quincentenary gives prominence to the perspective of the disenfranchised...
...Starting with the premise that racial inequality is endemic in Brazil, Andrews examines shifting patterns of race relations since emancipation...
...Duke University Press, 1988,280 pp., $37.50 (cloth...
...In this collection of essays, the African exchange is mapped out...
...Under the motto "A la Zaga de la Amirica Oculta," this new anthropological journal is the first to take seriously the study of the African peoples of Latin America...
...In their review of history, the authors divide each page into three parts-a historical summary in the inner column, a smorgasbord of excerpts from such authors as Eduardo Galeano, C.L.R...
...Using the case study of Sdo Paulo, he finds that the state-driven racial hierarchy of the early twentieth century gave way to silent, less tangible barriers formed by racial solidarity among the white elite that endure today...
...James and OmarCabezas in the middle, and short poems and quotations along the outer edge...
Vol. 25 • February 1992 • No. 4
