Publications
selected scholarly works & creative activities
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Article
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2024Championing Human Rights for Afrodescendants in Latin America. Scientia.Full Text via DOI: 10.33548/scientia1002
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2022"PONIENDO EL CADÁVER EN LA MESA….": Entrevista con Carlos Rosero, del Proceso de Comunidades Negras, Colombia. Abya-yala Revista sobre Acesso à Justiça e Direitos nas Américas. 6:156 a 170-156 a 170.Full Text via DOI: 10.26512/abyayala.v6i1.40709
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2022DERECHOS COLECTIVOS Y LEYES DE IGUALDAD RACIAL PARA AFRODESCENDIENTES EN LA PRÁCTICA DE LOS SISTEMAS DE JUSTICIA EN LA AMÉRICA LATINA DE LOS 2020’s. Abya-yala Revista sobre Acesso à Justiça e Direitos nas Américas. 6:07 a 22-07 a 22.Full Text via DOI: 10.26512/abyayala.v6i1.40713
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2022EL MODUS OPERANDI MULTICULTURALISTA DEL ESTADO EN AMÉRICA LATINA Y LA PRODUCCIÓN DE UNA ETNO-NORMATIVIDAD EN TRES LIBROS DE RECIENTE PUBLICACIÓN. Abya-yala Revista sobre Acesso à Justiça e Direitos nas Américas. 6:171 a 182-171 a 182.Full Text via DOI: 10.26512/abyayala.v6i1.40711
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2022PARA OBTENER Y DEFENDER LOS DERECHOS DE LOS AFRODESCENDIENTES, LA VOLUNTAD POLÍTICA DE GOBERNANTES ES PRIMORDIAL: entrevista con el Asambleista José Chalá Cruz, Ecuador. Abya-yala Revista sobre Acesso à Justiça e Direitos nas Américas. 6:141 a 155-141 a 155.Full Text via DOI: 10.26512/abyayala.v6i1.40710
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2021de Santana Pinho, Patricia (2018) Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil, The University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), xiii + 253 pp. $29.95 pbk.. Bulletin of Latin American Research. 40:469-471.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/blar.13277
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2021The observatory of justice for afrodescendants in latin america (Ojala) as an initiative of engaged anthropology for the promotion and defense of human rights. Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology. 18.Full Text via DOI: 10.1590/1809-43412021v18a811
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2020From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Contemporary Ethnoracial Law in Multicultural Ecuador The "Changing Same" of Anti-Black Racism as Revealed by Two Lawsuits Filed by Afrodescendants. Current Anthropology. 61:S248-S259.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/710061 Web of Science: 000584752600010
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2020Multiculturalism, Afro-Descendant Activism, and Ethnoracial Law and Policy in Latin America. Latin American Research Review. 55:605-612.Full Text via DOI: 10.25222/larr.1094
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2019Anti-discrimination law in two legal cases in multicultural Ecuador: Afro-Ecuadorian organizations and individuals versus Bonil/El Universo, and Michael Arce and Liliana Mendez versus Lieutenant Fernando Encalada/Escuela Superior Militar Eloy Alfaro (ESMIL). Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. 14:270-293.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2019.1673050 Web of Science: 000540797800004
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2018Afro‐Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil. Christen A. Smith, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016. 261 pp.. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, The. 23:219-221.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/jlca.12334
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2015Hypersexual Black Women in the Ecuadorian ‘Common Sense’. Civilisations. 59-80.Full Text via DOI: 10.4000/civilisations.2838
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2014Hypersexual Black Women in the Ecuadorian ‘Common Sense’. Civilisations. 59-80.Full Text via DOI: 10.4000/civilisations.2731
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2013Representaciones de gente negra en la Revista Vistazo, 1957-1991. Iconos. 0:96-105.Full Text via DOI: 10.17141/iconos.7.1999.684
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2011Hypersexual Black Women in the Ecuadorian ‘Common Sense’. An Examination of Visual and Other Representations. Civilisations. 59-80.Full Text via DOI: 10.4000/civilisations.2743
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2011From Invisibilidad to Participation in State Corporatism: Afro-Ecuadorians and the Constitutional Processes of 1998 and 2008. Identities. 18:502-527.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2011.671712 Web of Science: 000303208200005
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2010Red Card: Soccer and Racism. Directed by Rodolfo Muñoz. In Spanish, subtitles in English. New York: Third World Newsreel, 2007. 93 minutes. DVD. $225.00.. Americas. 67:151-152.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.0.0290
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2010Red Card: Soccer and Racism. Directed by Rodolfo Muñoz. In Spanish, subtitles in English. New York: Third World Newsreel, 2007. 93 minutes. DVD. $225.00.. Americas. 67:151-152.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/s000316150000540x
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2010Indians and Leftists. in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements. MARC BECKER: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. E.I.A.L. : Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe. 21:186-188.Full Text via DOI: 10.61490/eial.v21i2.55
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2010"THE DIVERSITY OF DIASPORIC SUBJECTIVITIES: DIFFERENT AND SEPARATE ONTOLOGIES?'' A RESPONSE TO KAMARI CLARKE'S "NEW SPHERES OF TRANSNATIONAL FORMATIONS: MOBILIZATIONS OF HUMANITARIAN DIASPORAS''. Transforming Anthropology. 18:66-69.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2010.01071.x Web of Science: 000211555800008
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2008El Mundial de Fútbol 2006 y la Selección Ecuatoriana. Discurso de Alteridad en la Internet y en la Prensa. Discurso & Sociedad. 2:609-641.Full Text via DOI: 10.14198/dissoc.2.3.4
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2007Editor's Note. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, The. 12:iv-v.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlca.2007.12.1.iv
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2006Society for Latin American Anthropology. Anthropology News. 47:53-54.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/an.2006.47.4.53.2
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2005Editor's Note. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 10:iii-iii.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlat.2005.10.2.iii
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2005Editor's Note. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 10:iii-iii.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlat.2005.10.1.iii
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2005Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda, 2004. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 10:267-269.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlca.2005.10.1.267
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2004Editor's Note. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 9:iii-iii.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlat.2004.9.2.iii
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2004Editor's Note. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 9:iii-iii.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlca.2004.9.2.iii
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2004Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 9:470-473.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlca.2004.9.2.470
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2004Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power:Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 9:470-473.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlat.2004.9.2.470
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2004Editor's Note. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 9:6-7.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlat.2004.9.1.6
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2004Editor's Note. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 9:6-7.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlca.2004.9.1.6
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2003Introduction: Mestizaje, Mulataje, Mestiçagem in Latin American Ideologies of National Identities. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 8:40-50.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlca.2003.8.1.40
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2003Introduction: Mestizaje, Mulataje, Mesticagem in Latin American Ideologies of National Identities. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 8:40-50.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlat.2003.8.1.40
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1999Body politics in black and white: Señoras, mujeres, blanqueamiento and miss esmeraldas 1997–1998, ecuador. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. 11:103-120.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/07407709908571317
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1998Blackness, the racial/spatial order, migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995-96. American Anthropologist. 100:421-+.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/aa.1998.100.2.421 Web of Science: 000074919300013
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Soccer and the (Tri-) Color of the Ecuadorian Nation: Visual and Ideological (Dis-) Continuities of Black Otherness from Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism. Visual Anthropology Review. 24:148-182.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-7458.2008.00011.x Web of Science: 000211315400005
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The ghost of Leopol II: The Belgian Royal Museum of Central Africa and its dusty colonial exhibition. Research in African Literatures. 34:58-84.Web of Science: 000181184400005
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Book
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2015Blackness in the Andes: Ethnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time of Multiculturalism. Ed. 20.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/jlca.12142 Web of Science: 000211764600010
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2012Black Social Movements in Latin America: From Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism. Ed. Rahier, Jean.Web of Science: 000314524400015
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2005Problematizing blackness: Self-ethnographies by black immigrants to the United States.. Ed. 107.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/aa.2005.107.3.530.1 Web of Science: 000231919100049
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Book Chapter
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20258 Early European Feminism at the Service of Colonialism in the Belgian Congo. 109-122.Full Text via DOI: 10.1515/9780691258195-009
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2025Early European Feminism at the Service of Colonialism in the Belgian Congo. 109-122.Web of Science: 001368993700011
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2023AFRODESCENDANTS, MULTICULTURALISM, AND THE ADOPTION OF ETHNORACIAL LAW IN LATIN AMERICA. 222-229.Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9781003159247-24 Web of Science: 001016370700023
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2020Creolization and African Diaspora Cultures: The Case of the Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas. 226-236.Full Text via DOI: 10.1515/9780822390114-032
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2020National Identity and the First Black Miss Ecuador (1995–96). 341-349.Full Text via DOI: 10.1515/9780822390114-046
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2020Affect and the Memorialization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. 19-42.Full Text via DOI: 10.5040/9781978722750-ch-001
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2018New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora Afterword. 367-369.Web of Science: 000707113400024
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2014Blackness, the Racial-Spatial Order at Work, and Beauty Contest PoliticsFull Text via DOI: 10.1057/9781137272720.0010
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2014Fútbol and the (Tri-)Color of the Ecuadorian NationFull Text via DOI: 10.1057/9781137272720.0012
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2014Stereotypes of Hypersexuality and the Embodiment of BlacknessFull Text via DOI: 10.1057/9781137272720.0011
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2014Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jews in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of Semana Santa. 37-64.Full Text via DOI: 10.1057/9781137272720_3
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2014Stereotypes of Hypersexuality and the Embodiment of Blackness: Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito, Ecuador. 147-174.Full Text via DOI: 10.1057/9781137272720_8
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2008Creolization and African Diaspora Cultures. 226-236.Full Text via DOI: 10.1215/9780822390114-031
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2008National Identity and the First Black Miss Ecuador (1995–96). 341-349.Full Text via DOI: 10.1215/9780822390114-046
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2003LUGARES DE IDENTIDAD Y REPRESENTACIONES: LO NEGRO EN LA FIESTA AFRO-ESMERALDEÑA DE LOS REYES, ECUADOR. 169-194.Full Text via DOI: 10.31819/9783865278043-012
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Book Review
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2021Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil. Ed. 40.Web of Science: 000697554700014
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2020Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Ed. 55.Web of Science: 000567096400039
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2020Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism. Ed. 55.Web of Science: 000567096400040
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2020Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States. Ed. 55.Web of Science: 000567096400037
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2020The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil. Ed. 55.Web of Science: 000567096400041
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2019Unsettled: Denial and Belonging among White Kenyans. Ed. 46.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/amet.12802 Web of Science: 000482378900014
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2018Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil. Ed. 23.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/jlca.12334 Web of Science: 000427598100018
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2017Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America. Ed. 36.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/blar.12689 Web of Science: 000409240600024
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2017Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology. Ed. 44.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/amet.12502 Web of Science: 000404546100036
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2016Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic. Ed. 90.Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/22134360-09003012 Web of Science: 000389753700014
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2015Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship.. Ed. 42.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/amet.12182 Web of Science: 000363657700027
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2014The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race.. Ed. 41.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/amet.12082_13 Web of Science: 000334894000024
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2013People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange. Ed. 87.Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/22134360-12340062 Web of Science: 000342406500009
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2009Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the US South. Ed. 83.Web of Science: 000207938800016
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2008Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness. Ed. 13.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1935-4940.2008.00057.x Web of Science: 000211693900019
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2007African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas. Ed. 15.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/tran.2007.15.2.175 Web of Science: 000211548300015
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2006My Cocaine Museum. Ed. 11.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlca.2006.11.1.233 Web of Science: 000211676100041
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2000Representations of blackness and the performance of identities. Ed. 33.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/220746 Web of Science: 000169623500100
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1999Cultures of scholarship.. Ed. 101.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/aa.1999.101.4.887 Web of Science: 000086129500050
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Other Scholarly Work
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2019Evaluating the usefulness of contemporary ethnoracial law for Afrodescendants in Latin America through the examination of court cases and the appreciation of the state's processual nature INTRODUCTION. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. 215-233.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2019.1673531 Web of Science: 000540797800001
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2006Editor's Note. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, The. IV-V.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlca.2006.11.1.iv Web of Science: 000211676100001
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2005Editor's Note. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, The. III-III.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlca.2005.10.2.iii Web of Science: 000211676000001
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2005Editor's Note. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, The. III-III.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlca.2005.10.1.iii Web of Science: 000211675900001
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2005Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, The. 267-+.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlat.2005.10.1.267 Web of Science: 000211675900040
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Review
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2013A Self-Identified U.S. Black Intellectual-Entrepreneur on Blacks in Latin America. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, The. 153-156.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1935-4940.2012.01272.x Web of Science: 000211741400018
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2004The study of Latin American "racial formations": Different approaches and different contexts. Latin American Research Review. 282-293.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/lar.2004.0057 Web of Science: 000224680100017
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Research
principal investigator on
- A Multifaceted Examination of the Application of Ethnoracial Law in Contemporary Multicultural Ecuador awarded by National Science Foundation 2021 - 2024
- Consolidating and Developing the Observatory of Justice for Afrodescendants in Latin America (OJALA) at FIU awarded by Wenner-Gren Foundation 2019 - 2021
- Expanding and Developing African Studies at Florida International University awarded by U.S. Department of Education 2014 - 2017
- 14th Eric Williams Memorial Lecture awarded by Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs 2012
- The Eleventh Eric Williams Memorial Lecture awarded by Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs 2009
Contact
full name
- Jean Rahier
