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EL INEGI REVELÓ NUESTRA PIGMENTOCRACIA
June 21, 2017
It is one of the most shameful features of Mexican society: the veneration we give to the fair skin and the contempt with which we treat people with dark skin. The cases are not secret. Advertising agencies that refuse to use brown people in their Mexican advertising campaigns; The prevalence of fair skin in social magazines, in soap opera casts, and in the roles assigned to brunettes: housewife, gardener, or corrupt policeman. Read full article
SALVADOR ALLENDE ANNUAL LECTURE 2016
October 21, 2016
Alison Richard Building, SG1 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
Race & Ethnicity from the Latin American experience.
Pigmentocracies (and its aftermath) by Edward Telles, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Telles is the Principal investigator, PERLA (Project on Ethnicity & Race in Latin America). The Centre of Latin American Studies hosts postdocs, sponsors research projects, organizes conferences and invites scholars from Latin America and universities around the world to speak at a series of events, including weekly open seminars and annual lectures.
Featured Collaborator: Edward Telles