The Todd Duncan Affair
Acción Democrática and the Myth of Racial Democracy in Venezuela
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8870073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Winthrop R Wright (University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 441-459 |
| Publication date | 1988-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1006969 |
| OpenAlex | W2319098632 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
In June, 1945, Time Magazine informed its readers that the North American singer, Robert Todd Duncan, had been refused accomodations by three prominent hotels in Caracas, Venezuela. This news, came as a shock to many Venezuelans who had considered their nation a racial democracy in which discrimination and prejudice did not exist. They felt doubly disturbed because a North American news magazine charged that the hotels had refused to admit Duncan, his wife, and his accompanist, William Allen, because of their race. They resented the fact that representatives of the press in the most racist society of the Americas accused Venezuelans of practicing racial discrimination of the sort found in the United States
Democracy · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · Wife · Classics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2018 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |