Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000While 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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These benefits were probably less important , though , than the opportunity to don the king's uniform and become part of ... Black service in the militia also established a precedent that would take on enormous importance in the wars of ...
and played an important part in mobilizing black support both for Torrijos and for the Panama Canal treaties . They then fell victim to internal disputes and divi- sions and were largely defunct by the time of Torrijos's death in 1981.
105 If this was the case in Brazil , the site of the largest and most important of the Afro - Latin American movements , what then of other countries where black movements were weaker and less ...
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معاينة المستخدمين - Fledgist - LibraryThingA brief, but thorough history of the African presence in Latin America from the beginning of the era of independence to the end of the twentieth century. This is a work of great importance that fills a huge gap in the literature on Latin America. قراءة التقييم بأكمله