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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الصفحة 8
... labor actions, the struggle to form families, African-based cultural forms—proved unexpectedly durable and long-lasting, and continued to shape the course of Afro-Latin American history, and therefore of Latin American history, in the ...
... labor actions, the struggle to form families, African-based cultural forms—proved unexpectedly durable and long-lasting, and continued to shape the course of Afro-Latin American history, and therefore of Latin American history, in the ...
الصفحة 10
... labor movements that were multiracial in character. Chapter 5 explains how these movements went on to form the social and electoral base for the populist regimes that by the 1930s and 1940s had come to power in most of Latin America ...
... labor movements that were multiracial in character. Chapter 5 explains how these movements went on to form the social and electoral base for the populist regimes that by the 1930s and 1940s had come to power in most of Latin America ...
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... labor imported from the African mainland. Beginning in the 1520s and 1530s they transplanted this form of agriculture to Brazil; by 1600 the coastal regions of Bahia and Pernambuco accounted for over one-half of the world's sugar ...
... labor imported from the African mainland. Beginning in the 1520s and 1530s they transplanted this form of agriculture to Brazil; by 1600 the coastal regions of Bahia and Pernambuco accounted for over one-half of the world's sugar ...
الصفحة 14
... labor demands, and, most destructive of all, new European diseases to which the Indians had no inherited immunities. In Brazil, one-third of the Indians living in Jesuit missions in the sugar zones died of smallpox and measles during ...
... labor demands, and, most destructive of all, new European diseases to which the Indians had no inherited immunities. In Brazil, one-third of the Indians living in Jesuit missions in the sugar zones died of smallpox and measles during ...
الصفحة 15
... labor, so much so that in Lima and other cities slaves convicted of crimes were sent to work off their sentences in local bakeries. Slaves worked in comb, furniture, and hat factories in Buenos Aires and in shipyards, ironworks, and ...
... labor, so much so that in Lima and other cities slaves convicted of crimes were sent to work off their sentences in local bakeries. Slaves worked in comb, furniture, and hat factories in Buenos Aires and in shipyards, ironworks, and ...
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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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