Blacks In Central America

Author : Lowell Gudmundson,Justin Wolfe
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822393139

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Blacks and Blackness in Central America by Lowell Gudmundson,Justin Wolfe Pdf

Many of the earliest Africans to arrive in the Americas came to Central America with Spanish colonists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and people of African descent constituted the majority of nonindigenous populations in the region long thereafter. Yet in the development of national identities and historical consciousness, Central American nations have often countenanced widespread practices of social, political, and regional exclusion of blacks. The postcolonial development of mestizo or mixed-race ideologies of national identity have systematically downplayed African ancestry and social and political involvement in favor of Spanish and Indian heritage and contributions. In addition, a powerful sense of place and belonging has led many peoples of African descent in Central America to identify themselves as something other than African American, reinforcing the tendency of local and foreign scholars to see Central America as peripheral to the African diaspora in the Americas. The essays in this collection begin to recover the forgotten and downplayed histories of blacks in Central America, demonstrating the centrality of African Americans to the region’s history from the earliest colonial times to the present. They reveal how modern nationalist attempts to define mixed-race majorities as “Indo-Hispanic,” or as anything but African American, clash with the historical record of the first region of the Americas in which African Americans not only gained the right to vote but repeatedly held high office, including the presidency, following independence from Spain in 1821. Contributors. Rina Cáceres Gómez, Lowell Gudmundson, Ronald Harpelle, Juliet Hooker, Catherine Komisaruk, Russell Lohse, Paul Lokken, Mauricio Meléndez Obando, Karl H. Offen, Lara Putnam, Justin Wolfe

Author : Santiago Valencia Chala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173019132919

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Blacks in Central America by Santiago Valencia Chala Pdf

Edited and translated into English, this book validates and authenticates the history of the African presence in the Caribbean and Central America. It attempts to add to the interdisciplinary work of the centrality of Africa within Latin America.

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 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.

Author : Jane Landers,Barry Robinson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,6 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.

Author : Jorge I Dominguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,5 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.

Author : Alejandro de la Fuente,George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 55,9 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.

Author : Ann M. Pescatello
Publisher : University Press of Amer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0819118265

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The African in Latin America by Ann M. Pescatello Pdf

Provides a history of the experiences of Africans in the New World and the contributions they have made to Latin American culture.

Author : George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 47,8 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.

Author : Norman E. Whitten,Arlene Torres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173006638223

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Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, Volume 2 by Norman E. Whitten,Arlene Torres Pdf

Shows regional Black history.

Author : Elisabeth Cunin,Odile Hoffmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Blacks
ISBN : 1592219322

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Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America by Elisabeth Cunin,Odile Hoffmann Pdf

Author : Norman E. Whitten,Arlene Torres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045992321

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Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, Volume 1 by Norman E. Whitten,Arlene Torres Pdf

Shows regional Black history.

Author : Marixa Lasso
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822973256

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Myths of Harmony by Marixa Lasso Pdf

This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most contemporary scholarship has focused the explanation for racial tolerance-or its lack-in the colonial period, Marixa Lasso argues that the key to understanding the origins of modern race relations are to be found later, in the Age of Revolution. Lasso rejects the common assumption that subalterns were passive and alienated from Creole-led patriot movements, and instead demonstrates that during Colombia's revolution, free blacks and mulattos (pardos) actively joined and occasionally even led the cause to overthrow the Spanish colonial government. As part of their platform, patriots declared legal racial equality for all citizens, and promulgated an ideology of harmony and fraternity for Colombians of all colors. The fact that blacks were mentioned as equals in the discourse of the revolution and later served in republican government posts was a radical political departure. These factors were instrumental in constructing a powerful myth of racial equality-a myth that would fuel revolutionary activity throughout Latin America. Thus emerged a historical paradox central to Latin American nation-building: the coexistence of the principle of racial equality with actual racism at the very inception of the republic. Ironically, the discourse of equality meant that grievances of racial discrimination were construed as unpatriotic and divisive acts-in its most extreme form, blacks were accused of preparing a race war. Lasso's work brings much-needed attention to the important role of the anticolonial struggles in shaping the nature of contemporary race relations and racial identities in Latin America.

Author : S. Oboler,A. Dzidzienyo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982636

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Neither Enemies nor Friends by S. Oboler,A. Dzidzienyo Pdf

In this collection, leading scholars focus on the contemporary meanings and diverse experiences of blackness in specific countries of the hemisphere, including the United States. The anthology introduces new perspectives on comparative forms of racialization in the Americas and presents its implications both for Latin American societies, and for Latinos' relations with African Americans in the U.S.

Author : Nielson Rosa Bezerra,Elaine Pereira Rocha
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443873017

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Another Black Like Me by Nielson Rosa Bezerra,Elaine Pereira Rocha Pdf

This book brings together authors from different institutions and perspectives and from researchers specialising in different aspects of the experiences of the African Diaspora from Latin America. It creates an overview of the complexities of the lives of Black people over various periods of history, as they struggled to build lives away from Africa in societies that, in general, denied them the basic right of fully belonging, such as the right of fully belonging in the countries where, by choice or force of circumstance, they lived. Another Black Like Me thus presents a few notable scenes from the long history of Blacks in Latin America: as runaway slaves seen through the official documentation denouncing as illegal those who resisted captivity; through the memoirs of a slave who still dreamt of his homeland; reflections on the status of Black women; demands for citizenship and kinship by Black immigrants; the fantasies of Blacks in the United States about the lives of Blacks in Brazil; a case study of some of those who returned to Africa and had to build a new identity based on their experiences as slaves; and the abstract representations of race and color in the Caribbean. All of these provide the reader with a glimpse of complex phenomena that, though they cannot be generalized in a single definition of blackness in Latin America, share the common element of living in societies where the definition of blackness was flexible, there were no laws of racial segregation, and where the culture on one hand tolerates miscegenation, and on the other denies full recognition of rights to Blacks.

Author : George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 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.