Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000Oxford University Press, 24/06/2004 - 299 من الصفحات While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America as the United States. In this, the first history of the African diaspora in Latin America from emancipation to the present, George Reid Andrews deftly synthesizes the history of people of African descent in every Latin American country from Mexico and the Caribbean to Argentina. He examines how African peooples and their descendants made their way from slavery to freedom and how they helped shape and responded to political, economic, and cultural changes in their societies. Individually and collectively they pursued the goals of freedom, equality, and citizenship through military service, political parties, civic organizations, labor unions, religious activity, and other avenues. Spanning two centuries, this tour de force should be read by anyone interested in Latin American history, the history of slavery, and the African diaspora, as well as the future of Latin America. |
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... social heritage of racial and class inequality left by slavery. This requires them to define their relationship to “blackness,” the most visible and obvious indicator of low social status. They must also decide whether, and to what ...
... social heritage of racial and class inequality left by slavery. This requires them to define their relationship to “blackness,” the most visible and obvious indicator of low social status. They must also decide whether, and to what ...
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... social disabilities on its members. Furthermore, as race mixture has progressed in the region over time, brownness rather than blackness has become the principal marker of African ancestry and nonwhite racial status.11 And as research ...
... social disabilities on its members. Furthermore, as race mixture has progressed in the region over time, brownness rather than blackness has become the principal marker of African ancestry and nonwhite racial status.11 And as research ...
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... social inequality—scholarship of the last 20 years has tended to focus much more on slave and free black “agency” and their ability to take action against the structural and human forces that oppressed them.15 In the case of slavery ...
... social inequality—scholarship of the last 20 years has tended to focus much more on slave and free black “agency” and their ability to take action against the structural and human forces that oppressed them.15 In the case of slavery ...
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... social and athletic clubs, cultural and civic organizations, newspapers, and political parties. And by the end of the 1900s, race-based organizing had taken the form of resurgent black civil rights movements, recalling the clubs and ...
... social and athletic clubs, cultural and civic organizations, newspapers, and political parties. And by the end of the 1900s, race-based organizing had taken the form of resurgent black civil rights movements, recalling the clubs and ...
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... social, and cultural life of the region. Not only have they created much of what defines modern Latin American culture, but also they have driven forward a process of social reform and political democratization that has been at the ...
... social, and cultural life of the region. Not only have they created much of what defines modern Latin American culture, but also they have driven forward a process of social reform and political democratization that has been at the ...
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The Wars for Freedom 18101890 | 53 |
The Politics of Freedom 18101890 | 85 |
Whitening 18801930 | 117 |
Chapter 5 Browning and Blackening 19302000 | 153 |
2000 and Beyond | 191 |
Population Counts 18002000 | 203 |
Glossary | 209 |
Notes | 213 |
Selected Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 275 |
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