Book Description
Shows regional Black history.
Author : Norman E. Whitten
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253211941
Shows regional Black history.
Author : Norman E. Whitten
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Shows regional Black history.
Author : Norman E. Whitten
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Blacks
ISBN : 9780253334060
Author : Norman E. Whitten
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253211934
Shows regional Black history.
Author : Delroy Constantine-Simms
Publisher :
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781640070127
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.
Author : Alejandro de la Fuente
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1316832325
Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies. Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of knowledge on a broad variety of topics, including Afro-Latin American music, religions, literature, art history, political thought, social movements, legal history, environmental history, and ideologies of racial inclusion. This volume connects the region's long history of slavery to the major political, social, cultural, and economic developments of the last two centuries. Written by leading scholars in each of those topics, the volume provides an introduction to the field of Afro-Latin American studies that is not available from any other source and reflects the disciplinary and thematic richness of this emerging field.
Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0814738184
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 : Persephone Braham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1611495385
Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline. Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature, and history, this volume shows how our understanding of the African diaspora in the Americas can be enriched by crossing disciplinary boundaries to recontextualize images, words, and thoughts as part of a much greater whole. Diaspora describes dispersion, but also the seeding, sowing, or scattering of spores that take root and grow, maturing and adapting within new environments. The examples of diasporic cultural production explored in this volume reflect on loss and dispersal, but they also constitute expansive and dynamic intellectual and artistic production, neither wholly African nor wholly American (in the hemispheric sense), whose resonance deeply inflects all of the Americas. African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States represents a call for multidisciplinary, collaborative, and complex approaches to the subject of the African diaspora.
Author : Ken Chitwood
Publisher :
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2021-09-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781626379480
Author : Lowell Gudmundson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822393131
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