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Black in Latin America

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814738184

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Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pdf

12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest-over ten and a half million-were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This astonishing fact changes our entire picture of the history of slavery in the Western hemisphere, and of its lasting cultural impact. These millions of Africans created new and vibrant cultures, magnificently compelling syntheses of various African, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish influences. Despite their great numbers, the cultural and social worlds that they created remain largely unknown to most Americans, except for certain popular, cross-over musical forms. So Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge-or deny-their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean and Latin America. Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries-Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru-through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism that has sometimes sought to keep the black cultural presence from view.

Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

Author : Jorge I Dominguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135564971

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Race and Ethnicity in Latin America by Jorge I Dominguez Pdf

First Published in 1994. In nearly all racially and ethnically heterogeneous societies, there is overt national conflict among parties and social movements organized on the basis of race and ethnicity. Such conflict has been much less evident in Latin America. Scholars have pondered the nature of race and ethnicity with regard to both Afro- American and Indo-American societies, though research on Brazil has been particularly prominent. Special attention has been given to the relationship between social class and race and ethnicity.

Afro-Latin American Studies

Author : Alejandro de la Fuente,George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107177628

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Afro-Latin American Studies by Alejandro de la Fuente,George Reid Andrews Pdf

Examines the full range of humanities and social science scholarship on people of African descent in Latin America.

Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000

Author : George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195152326

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Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 by George Reid Andrews Pdf

Covering the last two hundred years, and including Spanish America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, this book examines how African-descended people made their way out of slavery and into freedom, and how, once free, they helped build social and political democracy in the region.

Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives

Author : Jane Landers,Barry Robinson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0826323979

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Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives by Jane Landers,Barry Robinson Pdf

A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.

Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America

Author : Jerome C. Branche
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826520647

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Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America by Jerome C. Branche Pdf

Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music, and eventually film, would often simultaneously contravene or cooperate with the newly established order of Latin American nations negotiating independence and a new political and cultural balance. In Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America, Jerome Branche presents the reader with the complex landscape of art and literature among Afro-Hispanic and Latin artists. Branche and his contributors describe individuals such as Juan Francisco Manzano, who wrote an autobiography on the slave experience in Cuba during the nineteenth century. The reader finds a thriving Afro-Hispanic theatrical presence throughout Latin America and even across the Atlantic. The role of black women in poetry and literature comes to the forefront in the Caribbean, presenting a powerful reminder of the diversity that defines the region. All too often, the disciplines of film studies, literary criticism, and art history ignore the opportunity to collaborate in a dialogue. Branche and his contributors present a unified approach, however, suggesting that cultural production should not be viewed narrowly, especially when studying the achievements of the Afro-Latin world.

Afro-Latin America

Author : George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674545861

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Afro-Latin America by George Reid Andrews Pdf

Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere’s history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World.

Living While Black In Latin America And The Caribbean

Author : Delroy Constantine-Simms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1640070125

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Living While Black In Latin America And The Caribbean by Delroy Constantine-Simms Pdf

This book aims to highlight, how and why people of Afro-descendant living in Latin American and Caribbean, experience greater levels of racial discrimination, than African-American counterparts.

Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America

Author : Kwame Dixon,John Burdick
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813042695

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Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America by Kwame Dixon,John Burdick Pdf

Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America offers a new, dynamic discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America. Its thematic organization and holistic approach set it apart as the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of these populations and the issues they face currently available.

Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author : Luisa Marcela Ossa,Debbie Lee-DiStefano
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498587099

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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean by Luisa Marcela Ossa,Debbie Lee-DiStefano Pdf

This volume explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing specifically on how they negotiated shared social spaces and experiences to develop what in many cases would become a fusion of cultures.

Culling the Masses

Author : David Scott FitzGerald
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674369672

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Culling the Masses by David Scott FitzGerald Pdf

Culling the Masses questions the view that democracy and racism cannot coexist. Based on records from 22 countries 1790-2010, it offers a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere, showing that democracies were first to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states first to outlaw discrimination.

The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora

Author : Antonio Olliz Boyd
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604977042

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The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora by Antonio Olliz Boyd Pdf

Antonio Olliz Boyd is an emeritus professor of Latin American literature at Temple University. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, an MS from Grorgetown University, and a BA from Long Island University. Dr. Olliz Boyd has published various essays on Afro Latino aesthetics in literature in volumes, such as the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers; Singular Like a Bird: The Art of Nancy Morejon; Imagination, Emblems and Expressions: Essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and Continental Culture and Identity; Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays among others, as well as articles on Afro Latino literary criticism in various refereed journals. --Book Jacket.

Against Racism

Author : Mónica Moreno Figueroa,Peter Wade
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822988748

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Against Racism by Mónica Moreno Figueroa,Peter Wade Pdf

Powerful narratives often describe Latin American nations as fundamentally mestizo. These narratives have hampered the acknowledgment of racism in the region, but recent multiculturalist reforms have increased recognition of Black and Indigenous identities and cultures. Multiculturalism may focus on identity and visibility and address more casual and social forms of racism, but can also distract attention from structural racism and racialized inequality, and constrain larger antiracist initiatives. Additionally, multiple understandings of how racism and antiracism fit into projects of social transformation make racism a complex and multifaceted issue. The essays in Against Racism examine actors in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico that move beyond recognition politics to address structural inequalities and material conflicts and build common ground with other marginalized groups. The organizations in this study advocate an approach to deep social structural transformation that is inclusive, fosters alliances, and is inspired by a radical imagination.

Pigmentocracies

Author : Edward Telles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469617848

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Pigmentocracies by Edward Telles Pdf

Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America's most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by PERLA, this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial classification, inequality, and discrimination, as well as public opinion about Afro-descended and indigenous social movements and policies that foster greater social inclusiveness, all set within an ethnoracial history of each country. A once-in-a-generation examination of contemporary ethnicity, this book promises to contribute in significant ways to policymaking and public opinion in Latin America. Edward Telles, PERLA's principal investigator, explains that profound historical and political forces, including multiculturalism, have helped to shape the formation of ethnic identities and the nature of social relations within and across nations. One of Pigmentocracies's many important conclusions is that unequal social and economic status is at least as much a function of skin color as of ethnoracial identification. Investigators also found high rates of discrimination by color and ethnicity widely reported by both targets and witnesses. Still, substantial support across countries was found for multicultural-affirmative policies--a notable result given that in much of modern Latin America race and ethnicity have been downplayed or ignored as key factors despite their importance for earlier nation-building.

Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America

Author : Richard L. Jackson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820333120

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Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America by Richard L. Jackson Pdf

In Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America, Richard L. Jackson explores literary Americanism through writings of black Hispanic authors such as Carlos Guillermo Wilson, Quince Duncan, and Nelson Estupiñán Bass that in many ways provide a microcosm for the larger literature. Jackson traces the roots of Afro-Hispanic literature from the early twentieth-century Afrocriollo movement--the Harlem Renaissance of Latin America--to the fiction and criticism of black Latin Americans today. Black humanism arose from Afro-Hispanics' self-discovery of their own humanity and the realization that over the years they had become not only defenders of threatened cultures but also symbolic guardians of humanity. This humanist tradition had enabled writers such as Manuel Zapata Olivella to write of a Latin America "from below" the slave-ship deck and "from inside" the mind of Africa. Though many writers have adopted black literary models in their quest for a "poetry of sources, of fundamental human values," Jackson demonstrates that literature about blacks by blacks themselves is clearly separate from, yet instrumental to, these other works. Relating the vision of Latin American blacks not only to other Latin American writers but also to North American literary critics such as Eugene Goodheart and John Gardner, Jackson stresses the universal power of resisting oppression and injustice through the language of humanism.