Mara Loveman
Biographic Data
| ID | 176219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mara Loveman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mara |
| FAMILY NAME | Loveman |
| SIGNATURE | LOVEMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5198-9328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1039 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
A política de um cenário de dados transformado
As primeiras décadas do século XXI presenciaram uma dramática transformação do cenário de dados para a produção de estatísticas etnorraciais na América Latina. Essa transformação é mais evidente nos censos nacionais da região. Há algumas décadas, quase nenhum país latino-americano incluía questões sobre raça ou etnia em seu censo nacional. Já no censo de 2010, quase todos os países da região coletaram informações sobre identificação étnica ou rac…
Raza y política en Hispanoamérica
Book Review| February 01 2021 Raza y política en Hispanoamérica Raza y política en Hispanoamérica. Edited by Pérez Vejo, Tomás and Yankelevich, Pablo. Diásporas. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert; Mexico City: Bonilla Artigas Editores; Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2017. Notes. Bibliographies. 384 pp. Paper, €34.00. Mara Loveman Mara Loveman University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic …
How States Make Race
The Brazilian state recently adopted unprecedented race-targeted affirmative action in government hiring and university admissions. Scholarship would predict the state's institutionalization of racial categories has 'race-making' effects. In this article, we ask whether the Brazilian state's policy turnabout has affected racial subjectivities on the ground, specifically toward mirroring the categories used by the state. To answer, we conceptualiz…
Scripts of Blackness
A growing number of studies document the struggles of black communities in Latin America for official recognition of cultural distinctiveness, territorialbased claims, or social rights.Isar Godreau's brilliant analysis of the historical development and contemporary politics of one of Puerto Rico's most famous black communities is not one of these studies.It is, rather, an illuminating account of how the barrio of San Antón, Puerto Rico-reputed bi…
Classifying Colonial Subjects
Chapter 2 describes how Spanish and Portuguese imperial states classified their subjects in colonial Latin America. Ethnoracial classification was central to the extractive aims of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Official ethnoracial categories helped constitute the sociedad de castas; they were the administrative frame on which the imperial bureaucratic apparatus in the Americas was built. Yet even as colonial states devised ways to rule wit…
National Colors
The era of official color-blindness in Latin America has come to an end. For the first time in decades, nearly every state in Latin America now asks their citizens to identify their race or ethnicity on the national census. Most observers highlight the historic novelty of these reforms, but National Colors shows that official racial classification of citizens has a long history in Latin America. Through an analysis of the politics and practice of…
Travelling abroad with a map of a made-in-the-USA neo-liberal city
Can an analytic map crafted to describe and explain urban marginality in the USA serve as a guide for research in cities in other countries? I argue that to correctly diagnose the causes and consequences of urban marginality in cities around the globe demands grounded, historical analyses of specific cases. Historical analyses will reveal that repression of the poor not only takes different forms across contexts, it is also produced and legitimiz…
Measures of 'Race' and the analysis of racial inequality in Brazil
Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality
Many scholars advocate the adoption of a black-and-white lens for the analysis of racial inequality in Brazil. Drawing on a nationally representative dataset that includes race questions in multiple formats, we evaluate how removal of the 'brown' category from the census or other social surveys would likely affect: (1) the descriptive picture of Brazil's racial composition; and (2) estimates of income inequality between and within racial categori…
Desire for Race
The Race to Progress
From the mid-nineteenth century, central statistics agencies contributed to nation-state building through their dual mission of producing statistical description and policy prescription in the name of national progress. This article examines how one such agency, Brazil's Directoria Geral de Estatística, worked to simultaneously measure and promote national progress from 1870 to 1920. The article documents a fundamental shift in this period in the…
Whiteness in Latin America
Whiteness in Latin America: measurement and meaning in national censuses (1850-1950). Drawing on an analysis of all national censuses conducted in Latin America from 1850 to 1950, this article examines how tacit assumptions about the nature of « whiteness » informed the production of statistical knowledge about Latin American populations. For insight into implicit racial beliefs that shaped census-taking in this period, the article considers how …
How Puerto Rico Became White
According to official census results, the Puerto Rican population became significantly whiter in the first half of the twentieth century. Social scientists have long speculated about the source of this trend, but until now, available data did not permit competing hypotheses of Puerto Rico's whitening to be evaluated empirically. This article revisits the question of how Puerto Rico whitened using newly available Public Use Micro-Samples from the …
Blinded Like a State
The first reports of popular disturbances in connection with Decree 798, calling for obligatory civil registration of births and deaths in the Brazilian empire, surfaced in the early days of January 1852. In the ensuing weeks, men, women, and children from across the impoverished northeastern Brazilian backlands convened in small settlements and towns to protest the decree. Local authorities reported being forced to abandon their posts, fleeing f…
The Modern State and the Primitive Accumulation of Symbolic Power
The exercise of symbolic power has become a privileged focus of scholarship on the state, but without much attention to how states acquired this power in the first place. This article lays a foundation for systematic historical inquiry into the primitive accumulation of symbolic power by modernizing states. It introduces an analytical framework for research on how new domains of administrative ac-tivity become recognized as legitimate state pract…
Ethnicity as cognition
Racial Revolutions
Is "Race" Essential
Making 'race' and nation in the United States, South Africa, and Brazil
High-Risk Collective Action
Under what conditions will individuals risk their lives to resist repressive states? This question is addressed through comparative analysis of the emergence of human rights organizations under military dictatorships in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. While severe state repression is expected to lead to generalized demobilization, these cases reveal that repression may directly stimulate collective action. The potential for sustained collective ac…
Ethnicity as cognition
How Puerto Rico Became White
According to official census results, the Puerto Rican population became significantly whiter in the first half of the twentieth century. Social scientists have long speculated about the source of this trend, but until now, available data did not permit competing hypotheses of Puerto Rico's whitening to be evaluated empirically. This article revisits the question of how Puerto Rico whitened using newly available Public Use Micro-Samples from the …
Is "Race" Essential
The Modern State and the Primitive Accumulation of Symbolic Power
The exercise of symbolic power has become a privileged focus of scholarship on the state, but without much attention to how states acquired this power in the first place. This article lays a foundation for systematic historical inquiry into the primitive accumulation of symbolic power by modernizing states. It introduces an analytical framework for research on how new domains of administrative ac-tivity become recognized as legitimate state pract…
Measures of 'Race' and the analysis of racial inequality in Brazil
High-Risk Collective Action
Under what conditions will individuals risk their lives to resist repressive states? This question is addressed through comparative analysis of the emergence of human rights organizations under military dictatorships in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. While severe state repression is expected to lead to generalized demobilization, these cases reveal that repression may directly stimulate collective action. The potential for sustained collective ac…
Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality
Many scholars advocate the adoption of a black-and-white lens for the analysis of racial inequality in Brazil. Drawing on a nationally representative dataset that includes race questions in multiple formats, we evaluate how removal of the 'brown' category from the census or other social surveys would likely affect: (1) the descriptive picture of Brazil's racial composition; and (2) estimates of income inequality between and within racial categori…
Blinded Like a State
The first reports of popular disturbances in connection with Decree 798, calling for obligatory civil registration of births and deaths in the Brazilian empire, surfaced in the early days of January 1852. In the ensuing weeks, men, women, and children from across the impoverished northeastern Brazilian backlands convened in small settlements and towns to protest the decree. Local authorities reported being forced to abandon their posts, fleeing f…
The Race to Progress
From the mid-nineteenth century, central statistics agencies contributed to nation-state building through their dual mission of producing statistical description and policy prescription in the name of national progress. This article examines how one such agency, Brazil's Directoria Geral de Estatística, worked to simultaneously measure and promote national progress from 1870 to 1920. The article documents a fundamental shift in this period in the…
How States Make Race
The Brazilian state recently adopted unprecedented race-targeted affirmative action in government hiring and university admissions. Scholarship would predict the state's institutionalization of racial categories has 'race-making' effects. In this article, we ask whether the Brazilian state's policy turnabout has affected racial subjectivities on the ground, specifically toward mirroring the categories used by the state. To answer, we conceptualiz…
National Colors
The era of official color-blindness in Latin America has come to an end. For the first time in decades, nearly every state in Latin America now asks their citizens to identify their race or ethnicity on the national census. Most observers highlight the historic novelty of these reforms, but National Colors shows that official racial classification of citizens has a long history in Latin America. Through an analysis of the politics and practice of…
Whiteness in Latin America
Whiteness in Latin America: measurement and meaning in national censuses (1850-1950). Drawing on an analysis of all national censuses conducted in Latin America from 1850 to 1950, this article examines how tacit assumptions about the nature of « whiteness » informed the production of statistical knowledge about Latin American populations. For insight into implicit racial beliefs that shaped census-taking in this period, the article considers how …
Making 'race' and nation in the United States, South Africa, and Brazil
Travelling abroad with a map of a made-in-the-USA neo-liberal city
Can an analytic map crafted to describe and explain urban marginality in the USA serve as a guide for research in cities in other countries? I argue that to correctly diagnose the causes and consequences of urban marginality in cities around the globe demands grounded, historical analyses of specific cases. Historical analyses will reveal that repression of the poor not only takes different forms across contexts, it is also produced and legitimiz…
A política de um cenário de dados transformado
As primeiras décadas do século XXI presenciaram uma dramática transformação do cenário de dados para a produção de estatísticas etnorraciais na América Latina. Essa transformação é mais evidente nos censos nacionais da região. Há algumas décadas, quase nenhum país latino-americano incluía questões sobre raça ou etnia em seu censo nacional. Já no censo de 2010, quase todos os países da região coletaram informações sobre identificação étnica ou rac…
High-Risk Collective Action
Under what conditions will individuals risk their lives to resist repressive states? This question is addressed through comparative analysis of the emergence of human rights organizations under military dictatorships in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. While severe state repression is expected to lead to generalized demobilization, these cases reveal that repression may directly stimulate collective action. The potential for sustained collective ac…
Is "Race" Essential
Making 'race' and nation in the United States, South Africa, and Brazil
Racial Revolutions
Ethnicity as cognition
The Modern State and the Primitive Accumulation of Symbolic Power
The exercise of symbolic power has become a privileged focus of scholarship on the state, but without much attention to how states acquired this power in the first place. This article lays a foundation for systematic historical inquiry into the primitive accumulation of symbolic power by modernizing states. It introduces an analytical framework for research on how new domains of administrative ac-tivity become recognized as legitimate state pract…
How Puerto Rico Became White
According to official census results, the Puerto Rican population became significantly whiter in the first half of the twentieth century. Social scientists have long speculated about the source of this trend, but until now, available data did not permit competing hypotheses of Puerto Rico's whitening to be evaluated empirically. This article revisits the question of how Puerto Rico whitened using newly available Public Use Micro-Samples from the …
Blinded Like a State
The first reports of popular disturbances in connection with Decree 798, calling for obligatory civil registration of births and deaths in the Brazilian empire, surfaced in the early days of January 1852. In the ensuing weeks, men, women, and children from across the impoverished northeastern Brazilian backlands convened in small settlements and towns to protest the decree. Local authorities reported being forced to abandon their posts, fleeing f…
The Race to Progress
From the mid-nineteenth century, central statistics agencies contributed to nation-state building through their dual mission of producing statistical description and policy prescription in the name of national progress. This article examines how one such agency, Brazil's Directoria Geral de Estatística, worked to simultaneously measure and promote national progress from 1870 to 1920. The article documents a fundamental shift in this period in the…
Whiteness in Latin America
Whiteness in Latin America: measurement and meaning in national censuses (1850-1950). Drawing on an analysis of all national censuses conducted in Latin America from 1850 to 1950, this article examines how tacit assumptions about the nature of « whiteness » informed the production of statistical knowledge about Latin American populations. For insight into implicit racial beliefs that shaped census-taking in this period, the article considers how …
Desire for Race
Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality
Many scholars advocate the adoption of a black-and-white lens for the analysis of racial inequality in Brazil. Drawing on a nationally representative dataset that includes race questions in multiple formats, we evaluate how removal of the 'brown' category from the census or other social surveys would likely affect: (1) the descriptive picture of Brazil's racial composition; and (2) estimates of income inequality between and within racial categori…
Measures of 'Race' and the analysis of racial inequality in Brazil
Classifying Colonial Subjects
Chapter 2 describes how Spanish and Portuguese imperial states classified their subjects in colonial Latin America. Ethnoracial classification was central to the extractive aims of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Official ethnoracial categories helped constitute the sociedad de castas; they were the administrative frame on which the imperial bureaucratic apparatus in the Americas was built. Yet even as colonial states devised ways to rule wit…
National Colors
The era of official color-blindness in Latin America has come to an end. For the first time in decades, nearly every state in Latin America now asks their citizens to identify their race or ethnicity on the national census. Most observers highlight the historic novelty of these reforms, but National Colors shows that official racial classification of citizens has a long history in Latin America. Through an analysis of the politics and practice of…
Travelling abroad with a map of a made-in-the-USA neo-liberal city
Can an analytic map crafted to describe and explain urban marginality in the USA serve as a guide for research in cities in other countries? I argue that to correctly diagnose the causes and consequences of urban marginality in cities around the globe demands grounded, historical analyses of specific cases. Historical analyses will reveal that repression of the poor not only takes different forms across contexts, it is also produced and legitimiz…
Scripts of Blackness
A growing number of studies document the struggles of black communities in Latin America for official recognition of cultural distinctiveness, territorialbased claims, or social rights.Isar Godreau's brilliant analysis of the historical development and contemporary politics of one of Puerto Rico's most famous black communities is not one of these studies.It is, rather, an illuminating account of how the barrio of San Antón, Puerto Rico-reputed bi…
How States Make Race
The Brazilian state recently adopted unprecedented race-targeted affirmative action in government hiring and university admissions. Scholarship would predict the state's institutionalization of racial categories has 'race-making' effects. In this article, we ask whether the Brazilian state's policy turnabout has affected racial subjectivities on the ground, specifically toward mirroring the categories used by the state. To answer, we conceptualiz…
A política de um cenário de dados transformado
As primeiras décadas do século XXI presenciaram uma dramática transformação do cenário de dados para a produção de estatísticas etnorraciais na América Latina. Essa transformação é mais evidente nos censos nacionais da região. Há algumas décadas, quase nenhum país latino-americano incluía questões sobre raça ou etnia em seu censo nacional. Já no censo de 2010, quase todos os países da região coletaram informações sobre identificação étnica ou rac…
Raza y política en Hispanoamérica
Book Review| February 01 2021 Raza y política en Hispanoamérica Raza y política en Hispanoamérica. Edited by Pérez Vejo, Tomás and Yankelevich, Pablo. Diásporas. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert; Mexico City: Bonilla Artigas Editores; Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2017. Notes. Bibliographies. 384 pp. Paper, €34.00. Mara Loveman Mara Loveman University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic …
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