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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... [ European ] immigration is interrupted , " cau- tioned the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina in 1900 , “ and the need to pro- mote such immigration on a much larger scale than up until now , so as to definitively overcome that danger ...
... Europeans . Colombia offered tax exemptions and a 20 - year immu- nity from military service for immigrants and their children . But none of these programs yielded significant results , and European migration to Latin America remained ...
... European textile workers were far more likely to be paid an hourly wage and thus to have higher earnings than Afro ... European workers so consistently able to push Afro - Latin Americans aside in the competition for jobs ? Part of the ...