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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One of the principal black responses to the turn - of - the - century " export boom " was to join in the work of building labor movements that were multiracial in character . Chapter 5 explains how these movements went on to form the ...
... which in turn increased the need for further im- ports from Africa , which in turn further reduced the ability of the population to reproduce itself — and so on and on in a grinding chain of suffering , waste , and destruction .
stantly in danger of ' turning black . ... free and strong through the life that our money lends it.19 In its overwrought , feverish quality , Barreto's language vividly conveys the fears that gripped turn - of - the - century elites .
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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