Jean Muteba Rahier

The Study of Latin American "Racial Formations": Different Approaches and Different Contexts

REPUBLIC. By David Howard. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2001. Pp. 227.

Hypersexual Black Women in the Ecuadorian ‘Common Sense'

49.95 cloth,

Red Card: Soccer and Racism (review)

19.95 paper.) RACE AND POLITICS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. By Ernesto Sagas. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. Pp. 164.

Blackness, the Racial/Spatial Order, Migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995‐96

49.95 cloth.) A NATION FOR ALL: RACE, INEQUALITY, AND POLITICS IN TWENTIETHCENTURY CUBA. By Alejandro de la Fuente. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. 449.

Introduction: Mestizaje, Mulataje, Mestiçagem in Latin American Ideologies of National Identities

55.00 cloth,

Representations of blackness and the performance of identities

19.95 paper.) DREAMING EQUALITY: COLOR, RACE, AND RACISM IN URBAN BRAZIL. By Robin E. Sheriff. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. Pp. 264.

Problematizing blackness : self-ethnographies by Black immigrants to the United States

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Global circuits of blackness : interrogating the African diaspora

Dans cet essai, je contribue a l’examination du racisme et de la discrimination dans les societes andines, et en particulier en equateur, en me concentrant sur la reproduction des representations stereotypees des femmes noires comme etres hypersexuels dans la societe equatorienne ordinaire. Je paie une attention particuliere aux images visuelles et aux textes ecrits dans la presse equatorienne et dans d’autres medias qui les accompagnent. Cette approche permet de considerer les continuites ideologiques au travers des differentes periodes de l’histoire equatorienne.Les stereotypes sur l’identite, les corps, et la sexualite noires abondent en equateur. Ils sont similaires aux representations comparables dans d’autres contextes latino-americains ou sur la scene transnationale. Ils evoquent une supposee sexualite incontrolee noire comme “demonstration par excellence” de leur “sauvagerie” en meme temps qu’ils suggerent la disponibilite des corps feminins noirs pour la consommation/penetration masculine blanche-metisse. Je propose une analyse de la recurrence de ces images dans le respect des specificites de l’histoire recente du contexte national equatorien.

Body politics in black and white: Señoras, Mujeres, Blanqueamiento and Miss Esmeraldas 1997–1998, Ecuador

At the FIFA World Cup held in Germany in 2006, the Ecuadorian team was said to be one of the biggest surprises of the tournament. It was not only making the World Cup championship for only the second time ever, but most of its players were black, which brought some to jokingly wonder if Ecuador was a Caribbean country. In fact, an Argentinean soccer commentator, el Loco Gatti, pointed to the malaise felt by some as a result of this major black presence in an Andean countrys team. He suggested that these black players were actually not real Ecuadorians and that they must have been brought from Nigeria. His comments provoked uproar in Ecuador, as Ecuadorians at home and abroad began a series of discussions in the press and on the Internet about Ecuadorian national identity. This was a time when the black team captain from the Chota-Mira Valley, Agustin (Tin) Delgado, was revered as a national hero, after the teams excellent performances at the Mundial.