Tianna S Paschel
Biographic Data
| ID | 76981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tianna S Paschel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tianna S |
| FAMILY NAME | Paschel |
| SIGNATURE | PASCHEL T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 245 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
What Lies between the Poles? Selective Uncertainty and Occluded Bias in Immigration Attitudes in California
Although much extreme discourse is found at the poles, we still know little about how individuals in the center make sense of immigration as 'complicated' and even 'too complex' to make sense of. Such issues are important to address if we are to better understand the contemporary landscape of bias and belonging and the character of attitudes in the middle. We examine the issue by drawing on a unique survey of Californians and illustrative, linked…
Election 2020
This article reviews predictions made in an earlier piece entitled “Anti‐Blackness as a Logic for Anti‐Immigrant Resentment: Evidence from California” (Mora and Paschel 2020)
Antiblackness as a Logic for Anti‐Immigrant Resentment
Drawing on data from a novel survey of Californians, this article examines the relationship between anti‐immigrant resentment and antiblackness. Over the last decade, there has been a significant increase in research on anti‐immigrant resentment, as well as a steady growth in public opinion literature on antiblack bias. Nonetheless, there are almost no studies that examine the relationship between these types of attitudes. Using two different mea…
Statecraft, capital and the politics of difference
Hanchard's Spectre of Race is an important and far-reaching piece of scholarship that makes important contributions to the field of poltiical science and to our understandings of democracy, statecraft and the construction and management of difference. This article analyzes the strengths of Hanchard's comparative methodology while also raising a number of questions about the nature and functioning of racial regimes. First, it asks where capitalist…
Estudios afrolatinoamericanos
Título original: Afro-Latin American Studies. 1a ed.: Cambridge : Cambridege Uhiversity Press, 2018. Este libro tiene el objetivo de introducir al lector en un campo dinámico y en expansión como es el de los estudios afrolatinoamericanos. Definimos este campo, en primer lugar, como un estudio de la población de ascendencia africana en América Latina y, en segundo lugar, como el estudio de las sociedades en las que vive dicha población. En relació…
A Hemispheric Approach to Contemporary Black Activism
Black crosses memorialize the February 2015 murder of 12 people by the Brazilian police in the favela of Cabula, located in Salvador, Bahia. RAFAEL BONIFACIO27From Colombia to the U.S., Black Lives
The Color of Love
Becoming Black Political Subjects
After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black populations, governments in the region created a more pluralistic model of citizenship and made significant reforms in the areas of land, health, education, and development policy. This book explores this shift from c…
Every Day Is Black Heritage Month
This essay features commentary from Boston-based Afro-Panamanian activist, Yvette Modestín, about her experiences as an Afro-Latina immigrant to the USA and her organizing with Red de Mujeres Afro-Latinoamericanas, Afro-Caribeñas, y Diáspora and Encuentro Diaspora Afro. Tianna Paschel integrates her own analysis and provides context for her conversation with Yvette Modestín. This essay also calls attention to the gendered dynamics of political or…
Afro-Latin@s in Movement
Through a collection of theoretically engaging and empirically grounded texts, this book examines African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latin@s in the United States in order to explo
Becoming Black Political Subjects
Who Is Black, White, or Mixed Race? How Skin Color, Status, and Nation Shape Racial Classification in Latin America
Comparative research on racial classification has often turned to Latin America, where race is thought to be particularly fluid. Using nationally representative data from the 2010 and 2012 America's Barometer survey, the authors examine patterns of self-identification in four countries. National differences in the relation between skin color, socioeconomic status, and race were found. Skin color predicts race closely in Panama but loosely in the …
The Beautiful Faces of my Black People
The recent multicultural turn in Latin America has made the census a key site of struggle for both recognition and resources. Drawing on document analysis and ethnographic methods, this paper examines the politics around Colombia's 2005 census. I argue that Afro-Colombian organizations were successful in pressuring the state to move beyond the purely cultural notions of blackness institutionalized in the 1991 constitution and toward a broader eth…
Situating the 2012 Election in a Broader African Diaspora
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article analyzes Obama's significance for the African Diaspora in Colombia. I argue that for Afro-Colombians, Obama's election brought an unprecedented sense of collective pride. However, after four years of the Obama administration, many Afro-Colombian activists have begun to evaluate the impact of the Obama administration's foreign policy toward Colombia. I suggest that in order to understand Obama's sign…
The Right to Difference
Drawing on archival analysis and in-depth interviews, this article examines Colombia’s adoption of policies for black Colombians in 1993. It argues that Afro-Colombian activists were able to seize upon changes in global policy norms around multiculturalism and state disequilibrium both by deploying traditional social movement strategies and by framing their demands in terms of ethnic difference. This case extends our understanding of how social m…
Re-Africanization and the Cultural Politics of Bahianidade
This article examines racial politics in Brazil by analyzing the city of Salvador da Bahia's cultural policies over time and their relationship to national ideology and racial identity in Brazil more generally. It argues that the re-Africanization of Salvador's Carnival and its historical center, the Pelourinho, although initially products of the mobilization of Afro-Bahians themselves, have become institutionalized and ironically serve today as …
Contesting Politics as Usual
The intensification of ethno-racial protest in Latin America has led to the adoption of targeted legislation for Black and indigenous populations, signaling a new moment in race politics in this region. Existing literature has failed to account for this shift either because it held that race was not salient in Latin America, or it presumed that racial hierarchy existed, but that the obstacles to Black mobilization were insurmountable. We argue th…
We Didn't Cross the Color Line, the Color Line Crossed Us
We examine the interlinked migrations between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, between the Dominican Republic and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and, finally, migrations from these three countries to the United States. The literature tends to draw stark differences between race and racism in the United States and the nonracial societies of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. However, althoughBlacknessis a contextual category, through analy…
Who Is Black, White, or Mixed Race? How Skin Color, Status, and Nation Shape Racial Classification in Latin America
Comparative research on racial classification has often turned to Latin America, where race is thought to be particularly fluid. Using nationally representative data from the 2010 and 2012 America's Barometer survey, the authors examine patterns of self-identification in four countries. National differences in the relation between skin color, socioeconomic status, and race were found. Skin color predicts race closely in Panama but loosely in the …
The Right to Difference
Drawing on archival analysis and in-depth interviews, this article examines Colombia’s adoption of policies for black Colombians in 1993. It argues that Afro-Colombian activists were able to seize upon changes in global policy norms around multiculturalism and state disequilibrium both by deploying traditional social movement strategies and by framing their demands in terms of ethnic difference. This case extends our understanding of how social m…
Becoming Black Political Subjects
Contesting Politics as Usual
The intensification of ethno-racial protest in Latin America has led to the adoption of targeted legislation for Black and indigenous populations, signaling a new moment in race politics in this region. Existing literature has failed to account for this shift either because it held that race was not salient in Latin America, or it presumed that racial hierarchy existed, but that the obstacles to Black mobilization were insurmountable. We argue th…
The Beautiful Faces of my Black People
The recent multicultural turn in Latin America has made the census a key site of struggle for both recognition and resources. Drawing on document analysis and ethnographic methods, this paper examines the politics around Colombia's 2005 census. I argue that Afro-Colombian organizations were successful in pressuring the state to move beyond the purely cultural notions of blackness institutionalized in the 1991 constitution and toward a broader eth…
We Didn't Cross the Color Line, the Color Line Crossed Us
We examine the interlinked migrations between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, between the Dominican Republic and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and, finally, migrations from these three countries to the United States. The literature tends to draw stark differences between race and racism in the United States and the nonracial societies of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. However, althoughBlacknessis a contextual category, through analy…
Antiblackness as a Logic for Anti‐Immigrant Resentment
Drawing on data from a novel survey of Californians, this article examines the relationship between anti‐immigrant resentment and antiblackness. Over the last decade, there has been a significant increase in research on anti‐immigrant resentment, as well as a steady growth in public opinion literature on antiblack bias. Nonetheless, there are almost no studies that examine the relationship between these types of attitudes. Using two different mea…
Re-Africanization and the Cultural Politics of Bahianidade
This article examines racial politics in Brazil by analyzing the city of Salvador da Bahia's cultural policies over time and their relationship to national ideology and racial identity in Brazil more generally. It argues that the re-Africanization of Salvador's Carnival and its historical center, the Pelourinho, although initially products of the mobilization of Afro-Bahians themselves, have become institutionalized and ironically serve today as …
The Color of Love
We Didn't Cross the Color Line, the Color Line Crossed Us
We examine the interlinked migrations between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, between the Dominican Republic and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and, finally, migrations from these three countries to the United States. The literature tends to draw stark differences between race and racism in the United States and the nonracial societies of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. However, althoughBlacknessis a contextual category, through analy…
Contesting Politics as Usual
The intensification of ethno-racial protest in Latin America has led to the adoption of targeted legislation for Black and indigenous populations, signaling a new moment in race politics in this region. Existing literature has failed to account for this shift either because it held that race was not salient in Latin America, or it presumed that racial hierarchy existed, but that the obstacles to Black mobilization were insurmountable. We argue th…
Re-Africanization and the Cultural Politics of Bahianidade
This article examines racial politics in Brazil by analyzing the city of Salvador da Bahia's cultural policies over time and their relationship to national ideology and racial identity in Brazil more generally. It argues that the re-Africanization of Salvador's Carnival and its historical center, the Pelourinho, although initially products of the mobilization of Afro-Bahians themselves, have become institutionalized and ironically serve today as …
The Right to Difference
Drawing on archival analysis and in-depth interviews, this article examines Colombia’s adoption of policies for black Colombians in 1993. It argues that Afro-Colombian activists were able to seize upon changes in global policy norms around multiculturalism and state disequilibrium both by deploying traditional social movement strategies and by framing their demands in terms of ethnic difference. This case extends our understanding of how social m…
Situating the 2012 Election in a Broader African Diaspora
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article analyzes Obama's significance for the African Diaspora in Colombia. I argue that for Afro-Colombians, Obama's election brought an unprecedented sense of collective pride. However, after four years of the Obama administration, many Afro-Colombian activists have begun to evaluate the impact of the Obama administration's foreign policy toward Colombia. I suggest that in order to understand Obama's sign…
The Beautiful Faces of my Black People
The recent multicultural turn in Latin America has made the census a key site of struggle for both recognition and resources. Drawing on document analysis and ethnographic methods, this paper examines the politics around Colombia's 2005 census. I argue that Afro-Colombian organizations were successful in pressuring the state to move beyond the purely cultural notions of blackness institutionalized in the 1991 constitution and toward a broader eth…
Who Is Black, White, or Mixed Race? How Skin Color, Status, and Nation Shape Racial Classification in Latin America
Comparative research on racial classification has often turned to Latin America, where race is thought to be particularly fluid. Using nationally representative data from the 2010 and 2012 America's Barometer survey, the authors examine patterns of self-identification in four countries. National differences in the relation between skin color, socioeconomic status, and race were found. Skin color predicts race closely in Panama but loosely in the …
Becoming Black Political Subjects
After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black populations, governments in the region created a more pluralistic model of citizenship and made significant reforms in the areas of land, health, education, and development policy. This book explores this shift from c…
Every Day Is Black Heritage Month
This essay features commentary from Boston-based Afro-Panamanian activist, Yvette Modestín, about her experiences as an Afro-Latina immigrant to the USA and her organizing with Red de Mujeres Afro-Latinoamericanas, Afro-Caribeñas, y Diáspora and Encuentro Diaspora Afro. Tianna Paschel integrates her own analysis and provides context for her conversation with Yvette Modestín. This essay also calls attention to the gendered dynamics of political or…
Afro-Latin@s in Movement
Through a collection of theoretically engaging and empirically grounded texts, this book examines African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latin@s in the United States in order to explo
Becoming Black Political Subjects
A Hemispheric Approach to Contemporary Black Activism
Black crosses memorialize the February 2015 murder of 12 people by the Brazilian police in the favela of Cabula, located in Salvador, Bahia. RAFAEL BONIFACIO27From Colombia to the U.S., Black Lives
The Color of Love
Estudios afrolatinoamericanos
Título original: Afro-Latin American Studies. 1a ed.: Cambridge : Cambridege Uhiversity Press, 2018. Este libro tiene el objetivo de introducir al lector en un campo dinámico y en expansión como es el de los estudios afrolatinoamericanos. Definimos este campo, en primer lugar, como un estudio de la población de ascendencia africana en América Latina y, en segundo lugar, como el estudio de las sociedades en las que vive dicha población. En relació…
Statecraft, capital and the politics of difference
Hanchard's Spectre of Race is an important and far-reaching piece of scholarship that makes important contributions to the field of poltiical science and to our understandings of democracy, statecraft and the construction and management of difference. This article analyzes the strengths of Hanchard's comparative methodology while also raising a number of questions about the nature and functioning of racial regimes. First, it asks where capitalist…
Antiblackness as a Logic for Anti‐Immigrant Resentment
Drawing on data from a novel survey of Californians, this article examines the relationship between anti‐immigrant resentment and antiblackness. Over the last decade, there has been a significant increase in research on anti‐immigrant resentment, as well as a steady growth in public opinion literature on antiblack bias. Nonetheless, there are almost no studies that examine the relationship between these types of attitudes. Using two different mea…
Election 2020
This article reviews predictions made in an earlier piece entitled “Anti‐Blackness as a Logic for Anti‐Immigrant Resentment: Evidence from California” (Mora and Paschel 2020)
What Lies between the Poles? Selective Uncertainty and Occluded Bias in Immigration Attitudes in California
Although much extreme discourse is found at the poles, we still know little about how individuals in the center make sense of immigration as 'complicated' and even 'too complex' to make sense of. Such issues are important to address if we are to better understand the contemporary landscape of bias and belonging and the character of attitudes in the middle. We examine the issue by drawing on a unique survey of Californians and illustrative, linked…
Political science (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (5 works)