Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America
(PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race …

Often considered the father of anthropological studies in Mexico, Manuel Gamio originally
published Forjando Patria in 1916. This groundbreaking manifesto for a national …

The globalization literature spotlights the way that the experiences of transnational actors
are refracted through lives inhabitable elsewhere. In this article, I examine this process in …

Powerful narratives often describe Latin American nations as fundamentally mestizo. These
narratives have hampered the acknowledgment of racism in the region, but recent …

Mestizaje and ethnicity are key ideas that inform Mexico's 20th-century racial project. But
while mestizaje–as an ideology, state project, and daily practice–has been discussed and …

This essay revisits the drafting of the first UNESCO Statement on Race (1950) in order to
reorient historical understandings of mid-twentieth-century anti-racism and science …

Cotton, crucial to the economy of the American South, has also played a vital role in the
making of the Mexican north. The Lower Río Bravo (Rio Grande) Valley irrigation zone on …

Support to energy, particularly hydropower, has formed an important element of many donor
programmes. How have such interventions shaped the emergence of particular energy …

The environmental impacts of the global livestock industry are expected to continue
increasing due to high meat consumption among affluent consumers in developed nations …

In 1905 Rev. Francis Clement Kelley founded the Catholic Church Extension Society of the
United States of America. Drawing attention to the common link of religion, Kelley …