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    Cover page: More than ‘A Hidden Race’: The Complexities of Blackness in Mexico and Peru
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    UC Merced Previously Published Works (2013)
    In Mexico and Peru, denigrating racial humour about blacks and indigenous populations is prolific, despite the existence of colour-blind national ideologies (which minimize or negate the existence of racism) and social norms that silence various forms of race talk. This article draws on interviews and participant observation from these two countries to analyse the popular uses and interpretations of racial humour, and their consequences for racial ideology. We illustrate how racial humour serves to reproduce Mexican and Peruvian national ideology and reinforces the countries' racialized systems of domination. In this article, we identify three mechanisms involved in this process: 'going along' with jokes; framing racial humor as benign; and using laughter to 'soften' racism. Taken as a whole, our analysis reveals how racial humour works to maintain colour-blind ideology. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.
      Cover page: ‘It was only a joke’: how racial humour fuels colour-blind ideologies in Mexico and Peru
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      On-Line Working Paper Series (2007)

      This article examines the naming practices of Hispanic parents who gave birth to children in Los Angeles County in 1995. The authors find that greater exposure to U.S. culture increases the chances of naming a child in English. However, they find that by giving children English names that are translatable into Spanish, U.S.-born Hispanic parents are able simultaneously to assimilate while maintaining a connection to their ethnic origins. In addition, the authors find that attitudes favoring assimilation are particularly great when naming daughters. Immigrant Hispanic couples tend to give sons Spanish names, but they often give daughters English names without Spanish referents. These gender differences persist even among U.S.-born Hispanics paired with non-Hispanics. Among intermarried couples, father’s ethnicity has a disproportionately large influence in naming, especially for sons’ names. These findings have implications for how the assimilation process is gendered

        Cover page: Assimilation and Gender in Naming
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