1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716239803321

Titolo

Increase the clothing and cash gratuity furnished to persons discharged from prisons. May 14, 1926. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1926

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 pages)

Collana

House report / 69th Congress, 1st session. House ; ; no. 1208

[United States congressional serial set ] ; ; [serial no. 8534]

Altri autori (Persone)

GrahamGeorge Scott <1850-1931> (Republican (PA))

Soggetti

Clothing and dress

Legislative amendments

Prisoners

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788254303321

Titolo

Afro-descendants, identity, and the struggle for development in the Americas [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bernd Reiter and Kimberly Eison Simmons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-62895-163-X

1-60917-324-4

1-61000-000-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series

Altri autori (Persone)

ReiterBernd <1968->

SimmonsKimberly Eison

Disciplina

305.80098

Soggetti

Black people - Race identity - Latin America

Racially mixed people - Race identity - Latin America

African Americans - Race identity

Racially mixed people - Race identity - United States

Social integration - Latin America

Social integration - United States

Latin America Race relations

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Building black diaspora networks and meshworks for knowledge, justice, peace, and human rights / Faye V. Harrison -- Pan-Afro-Latin African Americanism revisited : legacies and lessons for transnational alliances in the new millennium / Darién J. Davis, Tianna S. Paschel, and Judith A. Morrison -- Haitians in the Dominican Republic : race, politics, and neoliberalism / Lauren Derby -- Navigating the racial terrain : blackness and mixedness in the United States and the Dominican Republic / Kimberly Eison Simmons -- Negotiating blackness within the multicultural state in Latin America : creole politics and identity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker -- Ethnic identity and political mobilization : the Afro-Colombian case / Leonardo Reales -- The



grammar of color identity in Brazil / Seth Racusen -- Afro-Colombian welfare : an application of Amartya Sen's capability approach using multiple indicators multiple causes modeling (MIMIC) / Paula A. Lezama -- Racism in a racialized democracy and support for affirmative action policy in Salvador and São Paulo, Brazil / Gladys Mitchell-Walthour -- Afro-descendant peoples and public policies : the network of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women / Altagracia Balcácer Molina and Dorotea Wilson -- Decolonizing the imaging of African-derived religions / Amanda D. Concha-Holmes -- Neoliberal dilemmas : diaspora, displacement, and development in Buenos Aires / Judith M. Anderson -- Pluralizing race / Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper.

Sommario/riassunto

Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being "racial paradises" populated by an amalgamated "cosmic race" of mulattos and mestizos, Latin America and the Caribbean have long been sites of shifting exploitative strategies and ideologies, ranging from scientific racism and eugenics to the more sophisticated official denial of racism and ethnic difference. This book, among the first to focus on African