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Race in Latin American Literature and Film

Race in Latin America

Race and Ethnic Relations in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Historical Dictionary and Bibliography
Robert M. Levine. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1980. Available?
Negros, Mulatos, Zambaigos: Derroteros Africanos en los Mundos Ibéricos
Berta Ares Queija and Alessandro Stella. Sevilla, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2000. Available?
Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present
Laura Gotkowitz, editor. Durham, Duke University Press, 2011. Available?
The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940
Thomas E. Skidmore, editor. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1990. Available?
Black in Latin America
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York, New York University Press, 2011. Available?
The Effects of Skin Color in the Americas
Edward Telles and Liza Steele. Americas Quarterly. February 21, 2012.

Race in Latin American Literature

Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature
Juan E. De Castro. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2002. Available?
The Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico
Joshua Lund. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Available?
Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America
Marilyn Grace Miller. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2004.
Los disfraces: la obra mestiza de Carlos Fuentes
Georgina García-Gutiérrez. El Colegio de México, 2000.
Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation: Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás Guillén.
Miguel Arnedo-Gómez. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 2016. Available?