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Blacks in Brazil: Myth or reality ?

Race, Law & Politics

What is Race? When some people use the "race" they attach a biological meaning, still others use "race" as a socially constructed concept. It is clear that even though race does not have a biological meaning, it does have a social meaning which has been legally constructed. Biological Construction By . . ."biological race," I mean the view of race espoused by Judge Tucker, and still popular today, that there exist natural, physical divisions among humans that are hereditary, reflected in morphology, and roughly but correctly captured by terms like Black, White, and Asian (or Negroid, Caucasoid, and Mongoloid). Under this view, one's ancestors and epidermis ineluctably determine membership in a genetically defined racial group. The connection between human physiognomy and racial status is concrete; in Judge Tucker's words, every individual's race has been "stampt" by nature. . . .[D]espite the prevalent belief in biological races...

A Dominica-born woman nominated Attorney General in the UK

Afrolatino Project

Monday, Sep. 07, 2009 Why Michelle's Hair Matters By Jenee Desmond-Harris When the First Lady attended a country-music event in July without a single strand of hair falling below her jawline, the blogosphere exploded with outbursts ranging from adoration to vitriol. Things settled down only when her deputy press secretary clarified that there had been no First Haircut. In the aftermath, a didactic post on MichelleObamaWatch.com proclaimed that anyone "familiar with the amazing versatility of black hair" would have known that the new summer look was simply "pinned up." (See pictures of Michelle Obama's hairstyles.) Many Americans have dismissed this hair hubbub as simply more media-driven noise — like the chatter about Michelle Obama's sleeveless dresses, J. Crew cardigans, stocking-free legs or, for that matter, recent (shocking!) decision to wear shorts in the Arizona heat. But for African-American women like me, hair is something else alto...

The Turks and Caicos loses independence: A very British coup | The Economist Shared via AddThis

The Martinican concept of "creoleness": A multiracial redefinition of culture. Beverley Ormerod University of Western Australia In the 1930s, black and coloured intellectuals from the French Caribbean colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyane sought for the first time to define their cultural identity in terms of their historical and racial affiliations with Africa, rather than their political and educational ties with France. During centuries of colonial rule, class barriers had effectively separated darker-skinned from lighter-skinned West Indians; the school system had reinforced European aesthetic norms, and had demanded the repudiation of Creole, the language associated with black slaves, in favour of French. The Negritude movement, inaugurated with L.-G. Damas'  Pigments  (1937) and Aimé Césaire's  Cahier d'un retour au pays natal  ( Return to my Native Land , 1939), rejected this cultural predominance of France and emphasized the writers' membe...

Vida Afrolatina Noirs d'Amérique Latine

Afrolatina Belleza Tais Araùjo:  Star Afrobrasilena  Gorgeous black women

Youth murders: Chicago' lost generation

Enquête L'impuissance masculine, c'est fini ! LE MONDE 2 | 21.08.09 | 15h03  •  Mis à jour le 21.08.09 | 15h03 'angoisse de la panne virile, passagère ou chronique, hante l'homme depuis toujours. Elle est désormais sans objet : entre médicaments érectiles, psychothérapies et prothèses, il est possible de rendre leur tonus aux plus affaiblis. Enquête au tréfonds de la physiologie et de la psychologie masculines. 1 - Où l'on apprend combien l'homme craint depuis toujours de "manquer de voix" La panne sexuelle et l'impuissance tourmentent l'homme depuis toujours. Des plaquettes gravées vieilles de 3 700 ans, trouvées dans le temple de la déesse Ishtar de Babylone, en Mésopotamie, contiennent des incantations à la virilité : "Que le vent souffle, que frémisse la futaie ! Que ma puissance s'écoule comme l'eau de la rivière, que mon pénis soit bandé comme la corde d'une harpe." Dans le Satiricon , écrit sous Néron, le poè...

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Économie et social La bourse et la vie Mis en ligne le 21/08/2009 Une opinion de Vincent De raeve, Julien Dohet, Pierre Eyben, Olivier Starquit et Karin Walravens. Le terme "travail" vient du latin "tripalium" qui désignait un instrument de torture. Notre société a à la fois élevé le travail au rang de valeur et organisé sa rareté. Celles et ceux qui en sont démunis se voient stigmatisés. Cette raréfaction du travail, notamment due à la mise en concurrence mondiale des travailleurs et à l’augmentation généralisée de la productivité, ne lui permet plus d’accomplir son rôle d’intégration sociale. Par ailleurs, "l’éloge du travail au moment de sa raréfaction empêche l’alliance des travailleurs et des chômeurs pour exiger un autre partage du travail et de la richesse produite". Le problème n’est en effet pas tant la production de richesses que sa destination (son usage). Face à la crise, les revendications en matière de pouvoir d’achat éludent cette situation....

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Caster Semenya: Male or female? Caster Semenya's sex in doubt, as reports of sex testing and potential disqualification surfaceBy now, most of you will be aware that South Africa's 800m sensation, Caster Semenya, has been reported as a potential disqualification from tonight's 800m final in Berlin, on the grounds that the IAAF had conducted tests on her to establish her sex, and that she might be male (I must clarify this - it's not an issue of male vs female, but of "entirely female", since she may possess secondary male characteristics as a result of some condition, reported as hermaphroditism).This latest report (unconfirmed, I might add, at least with respects to the DQ - apparently the testing was done) is the climax of rumors that have been doing the rounds ever since the 18-year set the world's fastest time of 1:56.72 in a low key meeting in Mauritius recently.I have been quite silent on the issue, and will continue to do...