Kwame Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kwame Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kwame |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Race, Gender, and Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean
This essay explores the new geographies of multicultural citizenship and democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing how Blacks, women, and Indigenous peoples are challenging old hierarchies of discrimination while creating new forms of civic participation and citizenship.The late anthropologist John Burdick argued that history weighs heavily on the peoples of the Americas, and that for the poorer, the darker, and those considered I…
Introduction
This chapter investigates the fluid intersection of social power and racial politics and their impact on the region's histories, politics, identities and cultures. Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America explores the dynamic interplay between racial politics and hegemonic power in the region. Latin America has a rich and complex social history marked by slavery, colonialism, dictatorships, rebellions, social movements and revolutions. The ch…
Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America
AntiRacism in Cuba
"AntiRacism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution by Devyn Spence Benson." Canadian Journal of History, 52(3), pp. 631–632
Rhythms of Race
Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
The struggle for racial justice by Afro–civil society in Brazil and Salvador da Bahia is the main concern of this book. Theoretically this research aims to contribute to Latin American critical racial theory and Afro-Brazilian social movements by providing deep insights regarding cultural politics in Salvador da Bahia by exploring the following: various and different of forms of Black consciousness and cultural expressions; different levels of po…
Yurumein homeland
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is composed of 32 islands located in the eastern Caribbean, forming part of the Windward Islands. According to local history, the Caribs who were the indigenous peopl
Comparative perspectives on Afro-Latin America
The Black History of the White House
The Afro-Latin@ Reader
Black and Indigenous
Racial Discrimination and Human Rights in the Global Context
This essay will discuss racism and racial discrimination by locating them within a context of international human rights. It is argued that conceptually racism and racial discrimination within an international human rights paradigm sharpens our understanding of these concepts from both a global and regional vantage point. The main idea is to provide a thematic and procedural overview of key international human rights instruments that address raci…
The New Racial and Gender Politics of Brazil
Brazil is a vast multicultural state and comprises one of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China). It is the world's fifth most populous country and is largely recognized as a thriving de
Race, Solidarity, and Citizenship
Juliet Hooker, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 228 pp Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State Bettina Ng'weno, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007, 299 pp T
Jack Hamann, On American Soil
Beyond Race and Gender
Beyond Race and GenderRecent Works on Afro-Latin America Kwame Dixon (bio) Afro-Latin America, 1800–2000. By George Reid Andrews . (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 304. $19.95 paper.) Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. By Edward E. Telles . (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. 336. $35.00 cloth.) Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity. By Edna M. Rodríguez-Ma…
Transnational Perspectives on Anti-Discrimination Laws, Jazz, and Racialization
Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature (review)
Reviewed by: Place, Language, and Identity in Afro–Costa Rican Literature Kwame Dixon Place, Language, and Identity in Afro–Costa Rican Literature. By Dorothy E. Mosby . Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xiii, 264 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Afro-Hispanic literary productions and works that configure or address the image of Afro-Latin people within narrative texts or subtexts are often marginal, if not invisible, within the broad frame of Lati…
Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature
Book Review| September 01 2004 Place, Language, and Identity in Afro—Costa Rican Literature Place, Language, and Identity in Afro—Costa Rican Literature. By Mosby, Dorothy E.. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xiii, 264 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Kwame Dixon Kwame Dixon Syracuse University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 264–266. https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004.5.1.264 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
Carol Anderson, Eyes off the Prize
The Black History of the White House
Black and Indigenous
Racial Discrimination and Human Rights in the Global Context
This essay will discuss racism and racial discrimination by locating them within a context of international human rights. It is argued that conceptually racism and racial discrimination within an international human rights paradigm sharpens our understanding of these concepts from both a global and regional vantage point. The main idea is to provide a thematic and procedural overview of key international human rights instruments that address raci…
Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature (review)
Reviewed by: Place, Language, and Identity in Afro–Costa Rican Literature Kwame Dixon Place, Language, and Identity in Afro–Costa Rican Literature. By Dorothy E. Mosby . Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xiii, 264 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Afro-Hispanic literary productions and works that configure or address the image of Afro-Latin people within narrative texts or subtexts are often marginal, if not invisible, within the broad frame of Lati…
Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature
Book Review| September 01 2004 Place, Language, and Identity in Afro—Costa Rican Literature Place, Language, and Identity in Afro—Costa Rican Literature. By Mosby, Dorothy E.. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xiii, 264 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Kwame Dixon Kwame Dixon Syracuse University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 264–266. https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004.5.1.264 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
Carol Anderson, Eyes off the Prize
Beyond Race and Gender
Beyond Race and GenderRecent Works on Afro-Latin America Kwame Dixon (bio) Afro-Latin America, 1800–2000. By George Reid Andrews . (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 304. $19.95 paper.) Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. By Edward E. Telles . (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. 336. $35.00 cloth.) Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity. By Edna M. Rodríguez-Ma…
Transnational Perspectives on Anti-Discrimination Laws, Jazz, and Racialization
Jack Hamann, On American Soil
Race, Solidarity, and Citizenship
Juliet Hooker, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 228 pp Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State Bettina Ng'weno, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007, 299 pp T
Racial Discrimination and Human Rights in the Global Context
This essay will discuss racism and racial discrimination by locating them within a context of international human rights. It is argued that conceptually racism and racial discrimination within an international human rights paradigm sharpens our understanding of these concepts from both a global and regional vantage point. The main idea is to provide a thematic and procedural overview of key international human rights instruments that address raci…
The New Racial and Gender Politics of Brazil
Brazil is a vast multicultural state and comprises one of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China). It is the world's fifth most populous country and is largely recognized as a thriving de
Comparative perspectives on Afro-Latin America
The Black History of the White House
The Afro-Latin@ Reader
Black and Indigenous
Yurumein homeland
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is composed of 32 islands located in the eastern Caribbean, forming part of the Windward Islands. According to local history, the Caribs who were the indigenous peopl
Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
The struggle for racial justice by Afro–civil society in Brazil and Salvador da Bahia is the main concern of this book. Theoretically this research aims to contribute to Latin American critical racial theory and Afro-Brazilian social movements by providing deep insights regarding cultural politics in Salvador da Bahia by exploring the following: various and different of forms of Black consciousness and cultural expressions; different levels of po…
AntiRacism in Cuba
"AntiRacism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution by Devyn Spence Benson." Canadian Journal of History, 52(3), pp. 631–632
Rhythms of Race
Introduction
This chapter investigates the fluid intersection of social power and racial politics and their impact on the region's histories, politics, identities and cultures. Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America explores the dynamic interplay between racial politics and hegemonic power in the region. Latin America has a rich and complex social history marked by slavery, colonialism, dictatorships, rebellions, social movements and revolutions. The ch…
Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America
Race, Gender, and Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean
This essay explores the new geographies of multicultural citizenship and democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing how Blacks, women, and Indigenous peoples are challenging old hierarchies of discrimination while creating new forms of civic participation and citizenship.The late anthropologist John Burdick argued that history weighs heavily on the peoples of the Americas, and that for the poorer, the darker, and those considered I…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Latin Americans (7 works) · Art (5 works)