Dictionary of Latin American Racial and and Ethnic Terminology, second edition Part 1: Spanish American Terms, Part 2: Brazilian Portuguese Terms, Part 3: French-American and American French Creole Terms by
Thomas M. Stephens This thoroughly revised
and updated version of Thomas M. Stephens’s popular
and respected dictionary now features terms of the French
American and American French Creole Caribbean. In
addition, it introduces new symbols and abbreviations and
cross-references more terms between and among Spanish,
Portuguese, and French than in the first edition.
Stephens also has combined some terms whose only
difference was a matter of spelling, intercalated the
definitions for terms he has re-alphabetized, and updated
definitions. Without altering his earlier book’s
successful form and style, Stephens here has radically
augmented the content of a classic reference work. Thomas M. Stephens,
associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers
University, is the author of Dictionary of Latin
American Racial and Ethnic Terminology (UPF, 1990)
and has published various articles on language and
ethnicity.
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"A major contribution to the understanding of historical and contemporary concepts of race and ethnicity in Latin America and, to a certain extent, in the United States."—Ethnic Studies "The most thorough and trustworthy lexicon of Ibero-American ethnic descriptors ever published. It will serve many a scholar as the point of departure for primary-source fieldwork in one of the most fascinating semantic fields of Western-Hemisphere Spanish and Portuguese."—Language "For the first time, a detailed etymology of Spanish and Portuguese words used for racial and ethnic purposes in Latin America. . . . Cites sources for word usage and, where possible, provides the context in which the word is used. An invaluable reference work for researchers in race and ethnicity."—Library Journal
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