Islam is at the heart of an emerging global anti-hegemonic culture that combines diasporic and local cultural elements, and blends Arab, Islamic, black and Hispanic factors to generate "a revolutionary black, Asian and Hispanic globalization, with its own dynamic counter-modernity constructed in order to fight global imperialism. (say what!)
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
brazil's racial history
An interesting discussion of the history of race relations in Brazil (which looks back to Granada and beyond). The paper is called Race and Fantasy and is a good example of how racial issues in Latin America are often ignored and denied.
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