Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000Oxford University Press, 2004 - 284 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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... Central America ; rubber from Brazil ; oil from Mex- ico and Venezuela - these and other commodities were being consumed in the industrialized countries in quantities greater than ever before . Between 1870 and 1912 , the annual value ...
... Central Amer- ican elites , unwilling to risk alienating the American firms and officials on whom they now depended , and at the same time deeply resentful of that very depend- ence , vented their anger on the West Indians as the most ...
... Central ( The West Indian Danger in Central America ) appealed to the other Latin American nations to help Panama prevent the formation , " in the heart of Latin America , " of " a powerful nucleus of a race that is foreign and strange ...