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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... result : the widen- ing of opportunities for slaves to pursue freedom , as well as the undermining of the institution to such a degree that , within eight years of the termination of the Ten Years War , slavery was over . 88 Only in ...
... result , he noted , was widespread " displeasure " and " discontent " among the whites , resulting in continued de- mands that , in the words of two such individuals , the government reinforce " the power that the white race has over ...
... result of Vargas's policies . As in Costa Rica at the same time , large increases in state employment between 1930 and 1960 greatly ex- panded opportunities for Afro - Brazilians during a period in which , historian Robert Levine notes ...