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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... party structures . Both parties drew from the full spectrum of Latin American society , from wealthy landowners to poverty - stricken peasants ; and party allegiance was often determined more by personal ties of kinship and friendship ...
... Party . Black veterans and politicians pres- sured the party through the Action Committee of Colored Veterans , formed in 1902 , and joined in the ( unsuccessful ) Liberal rebellion of 1906. But by the end of the decade , a number of ...
... party's first black presidential candidate.21 This effort to reconnect with the party's traditional electoral base was unsuccess- ful , as both Fermín and his COPEI opponent lost to a third - party independent . The two major parties ...