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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... United States , but south . During the period of slavery , ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America ( 5.7 million ) as to the United States ( 560,000 ) . By the end of the 1900s , Afro - Latin Americans ...
... United Fruit imported over 20,000 West Indians into the province.69 In countries with relatively small populations , this volume of immigration had an enormous impact , even more so when it was a direct consequence of the massive influx ...
... United States . When African - American civil rights organ- izations began to dismantle segregation in the 1950s and 1960s , and then went on to obtain the enactment of equal opportunity and affirmative action programs in the 1970s ...