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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... laws governing people of " unclean blood " -Arabs , Jews , gypsies , and Africans - in the Old World . During the ... Caste Regime governing free blacks and mulattoes , Indians , mestizos , and other racially mixed peoples . 109 Under the ...
George Reid Andrews. turned the tables by attributing those failings to the caste laws themselves , and to the " beaten down , despised state " to which those laws confined free people of color . Honor and integrity arise not in response ...
... caste laws were equally dramatic in Brazil , where the Constitu- tion of 1824 declared the legal equality of all freeborn Brazilian citizens . ( Libertos freed from slavery possessed full civil and legal rights but were barred from serv ...