Jan Hoffman French
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 91903 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan Hoffman French |
| NOMBRES | Jan Hoffman |
| APELLIDO | French |
| FIRMA | FRENCH J H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Richmond |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 171 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Ethnography In-Sight
Credit: Photo by Alejandro Zambrana, October 2010, Laranjeiras, Sergipe. Knowledge and interpretation of an annual festival in the Brazilian northeastern city of Laranjeiras, Sergipe (see French, this issue) informs my particular dialogic relationship to this Photograph. The permanence of the handprints behind a figure moving through time depicted in this image illustrates two states of being, but also two ways-at least-of knowing: on the one han…
Paint It Black or Red
This article analyzes a popular, folkloric dance drama in the small city, Laranjeiras, a thriving slave port for its first three centuries. Lambe-sujo e Caboclinho, dating to the 19th century, depicts the practice of missionized Indigenous people engaged to capture and return fugitive slaves. Participants paint themselves either black or red and parade through the streets, leading to a mock battle, ending in defeat of the fugitive slaves. This ar…
Race, Racism, and Affirmative Action in Brazil and the United States
This essay reviews the following works
J ean E. J ackson . Managing Multiculturalism
Jean E. Jackson, prominent scholar of Indigenous peoples and multicultural politics in Colombia, has written an intellectual autobiography, Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia, that places her work and reflections within the context of the anthropology of Indigenous groups in lowland South America over her fifty-year career. Jackson traces the literature and her own changing perspective on the place of a…
Repensando a Violência Policial no Brasil
Nas cidades brasileiras, talvez a atividade criminosa mais per- turbadora seja a violência perpetrada pelos próprios agentes policiais. Este artigo é um convite e uma provocação à reconsi- derar o pensamento científico social sobre a violência policial no Brasil. Ilustrado pela decisão judicial de uma cidade nordestina, na qual um homem negro venceu um processo contra o Estado por ter sido ilegalmente preso e abusado por um policial negro devido …
Rethinking Police Violence in Brazil
In Brazilian cities, perhaps the most disturbing criminal activity is the violence perpetrated by police officers themselves. This article is an invitation and a provocation to reconsider social scientific thinking about police violence in Brazil. Illustrated by a court decision from a Northeastern city, in which a black man won a case against the state for being falsely arrested and abused by a black police officer on the grounds of racism, this…
Dilemmas of Modernity
Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Bahia, Brazil . Stephen Selka
Legalizing Identities
Anthropologists widely agree that identities—even ethnic and racial ones—are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. This book shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analysis of successful claims to land by two neighboring black communities in the bac…
Insurgent Citizenship
Rights in Rebellion
Now We Are Citizens
A Tale of Two Priests and Two Struggles
Land for the landless, food for the hungry, literacy for the uneducated—not through charitable works, but by forcing the state to take seriously its responsibilities to its poorest citizens. This was integral to the theology of liberation as it was practiced by bishops, priests, and nuns in Brazil beginning shortly after the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Important sectors of the Brazilian Catholic Church were “opting for the poor” …
Buried alive
Many rural black communities in Brazil are currently petitioning for legal recognition as descendant communities of fugitive slaves (quilombos) under a provision in the 1988 Constitution of Brazil. In this article, I analyze the elaboration and transformation of a family story into a narrative about slavery in one such recognized quilombo. I then further analyze the narrative's transformation into a play performed regularly by adolescent members …
Personal Encounters with the Work of Laura Nader
Racial Revolutions
Jonathan Warren has written a provocative, no-holds-barred appeal to incorporate Brazil’s eastern Indians into scholarship about race and antiracist activism. Racial Revolutions is not about Amazonian Indians or international indigenous movement politics. Nor is it a book about history or historical explanations. Instead, it focuses on newly recognized indigenous groups in a region of Brazil believed for many years to have no Indian population. U…
Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil
In this article, I explore issues of authenticity, legal discourse, and local requirements of belonging by considering the recent surge of indigenous recognitions in northeastern Brazil. I investigate how race and ethnicity are implicated in the recognition process in Brazil on the basis of an analysis of a successful struggle for indigenous identity and access to land by a group of mixed-race, visibly, African-descended rural workers. I propose …
Os quilombos e seus direitos hoje
Este artigo, ao enfocar o processo de reconhecimento de uma comunidade do sertão sergipano como remanescente de quilombo, tem como objetivo discutir como os novos conceitos de quilombo, gerados no processo de reconhecimento jurídico, reconfiguram identidades sociais, num diálogo entre a história, a lei e as práticas culturais. Para tal, o presente artigo questiona teorizações dicotomizadoras, que justapõem uma identidade racial, concebida de form…
Dancing for Land
Legalizing Identities
Anthropologists widely agree that identities—even ethnic and racial ones—are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. This book shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analysis of successful claims to land by two neighboring black communities in the bac…
Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil
In this article, I explore issues of authenticity, legal discourse, and local requirements of belonging by considering the recent surge of indigenous recognitions in northeastern Brazil. I investigate how race and ethnicity are implicated in the recognition process in Brazil on the basis of an analysis of a successful struggle for indigenous identity and access to land by a group of mixed-race, visibly, African-descended rural workers. I propose …
Buried alive
Many rural black communities in Brazil are currently petitioning for legal recognition as descendant communities of fugitive slaves (quilombos) under a provision in the 1988 Constitution of Brazil. In this article, I analyze the elaboration and transformation of a family story into a narrative about slavery in one such recognized quilombo. I then further analyze the narrative's transformation into a play performed regularly by adolescent members …
Rethinking Police Violence in Brazil
In Brazilian cities, perhaps the most disturbing criminal activity is the violence perpetrated by police officers themselves. This article is an invitation and a provocation to reconsider social scientific thinking about police violence in Brazil. Illustrated by a court decision from a Northeastern city, in which a black man won a case against the state for being falsely arrested and abused by a black police officer on the grounds of racism, this…
Dancing for Land
A Tale of Two Priests and Two Struggles
Land for the landless, food for the hungry, literacy for the uneducated—not through charitable works, but by forcing the state to take seriously its responsibilities to its poorest citizens. This was integral to the theology of liberation as it was practiced by bishops, priests, and nuns in Brazil beginning shortly after the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Important sectors of the Brazilian Catholic Church were “opting for the poor” …
Race, Racism, and Affirmative Action in Brazil and the United States
This essay reviews the following works
Racial Revolutions
Jonathan Warren has written a provocative, no-holds-barred appeal to incorporate Brazil’s eastern Indians into scholarship about race and antiracist activism. Racial Revolutions is not about Amazonian Indians or international indigenous movement politics. Nor is it a book about history or historical explanations. Instead, it focuses on newly recognized indigenous groups in a region of Brazil believed for many years to have no Indian population. U…
Dancing for Land
Os quilombos e seus direitos hoje
Este artigo, ao enfocar o processo de reconhecimento de uma comunidade do sertão sergipano como remanescente de quilombo, tem como objetivo discutir como os novos conceitos de quilombo, gerados no processo de reconhecimento jurídico, reconfiguram identidades sociais, num diálogo entre a história, a lei e as práticas culturais. Para tal, o presente artigo questiona teorizações dicotomizadoras, que justapõem uma identidade racial, concebida de form…
Racial Revolutions
Jonathan Warren has written a provocative, no-holds-barred appeal to incorporate Brazil’s eastern Indians into scholarship about race and antiracist activism. Racial Revolutions is not about Amazonian Indians or international indigenous movement politics. Nor is it a book about history or historical explanations. Instead, it focuses on newly recognized indigenous groups in a region of Brazil believed for many years to have no Indian population. U…
Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil
In this article, I explore issues of authenticity, legal discourse, and local requirements of belonging by considering the recent surge of indigenous recognitions in northeastern Brazil. I investigate how race and ethnicity are implicated in the recognition process in Brazil on the basis of an analysis of a successful struggle for indigenous identity and access to land by a group of mixed-race, visibly, African-descended rural workers. I propose …
Personal Encounters with the Work of Laura Nader
Buried alive
Many rural black communities in Brazil are currently petitioning for legal recognition as descendant communities of fugitive slaves (quilombos) under a provision in the 1988 Constitution of Brazil. In this article, I analyze the elaboration and transformation of a family story into a narrative about slavery in one such recognized quilombo. I then further analyze the narrative's transformation into a play performed regularly by adolescent members …
A Tale of Two Priests and Two Struggles
Land for the landless, food for the hungry, literacy for the uneducated—not through charitable works, but by forcing the state to take seriously its responsibilities to its poorest citizens. This was integral to the theology of liberation as it was practiced by bishops, priests, and nuns in Brazil beginning shortly after the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Important sectors of the Brazilian Catholic Church were “opting for the poor” …
Now We Are Citizens
Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Bahia, Brazil . Stephen Selka
Legalizing Identities
Anthropologists widely agree that identities—even ethnic and racial ones—are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. This book shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analysis of successful claims to land by two neighboring black communities in the bac…
Insurgent Citizenship
Rights in Rebellion
Dilemmas of Modernity
Rethinking Police Violence in Brazil
In Brazilian cities, perhaps the most disturbing criminal activity is the violence perpetrated by police officers themselves. This article is an invitation and a provocation to reconsider social scientific thinking about police violence in Brazil. Illustrated by a court decision from a Northeastern city, in which a black man won a case against the state for being falsely arrested and abused by a black police officer on the grounds of racism, this…
Repensando a Violência Policial no Brasil
Nas cidades brasileiras, talvez a atividade criminosa mais per- turbadora seja a violência perpetrada pelos próprios agentes policiais. Este artigo é um convite e uma provocação à reconsi- derar o pensamento científico social sobre a violência policial no Brasil. Ilustrado pela decisão judicial de uma cidade nordestina, na qual um homem negro venceu um processo contra o Estado por ter sido ilegalmente preso e abusado por um policial negro devido …
J ean E. J ackson . Managing Multiculturalism
Jean E. Jackson, prominent scholar of Indigenous peoples and multicultural politics in Colombia, has written an intellectual autobiography, Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia, that places her work and reflections within the context of the anthropology of Indigenous groups in lowland South America over her fifty-year career. Jackson traces the literature and her own changing perspective on the place of a…
Race, Racism, and Affirmative Action in Brazil and the United States
This essay reviews the following works
Ethnography In-Sight
Credit: Photo by Alejandro Zambrana, October 2010, Laranjeiras, Sergipe. Knowledge and interpretation of an annual festival in the Brazilian northeastern city of Laranjeiras, Sergipe (see French, this issue) informs my particular dialogic relationship to this Photograph. The permanence of the handprints behind a figure moving through time depicted in this image illustrates two states of being, but also two ways-at least-of knowing: on the one han…
Paint It Black or Red
This article analyzes a popular, folkloric dance drama in the small city, Laranjeiras, a thriving slave port for its first three centuries. Lambe-sujo e Caboclinho, dating to the 19th century, depicts the practice of missionized Indigenous people engaged to capture and return fugitive slaves. Participants paint themselves either black or red and parade through the streets, leading to a mock battle, ending in defeat of the fugitive slaves. This ar…
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