Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 / George Reid Andrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, George Reid, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Latin America--History.

Black people.

Multiracial people.

History.

Latin America.

Multiracial people--Latin America--History.

Latin America--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

viii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

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 peoples 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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 1800 11

Chapter 2 "An Exterminating Bolt of Lightning": The Wars for Freedom, 1810-1890 53

Chapter 3 "Our New Citizens, the Blacks": The Politics of Freedom, 1810-1890 85

Chapter 4 "A Transfusion of New Blood": Whitening, 1880-1930 117

Chapter 5 Browning and Blackening, 1930-2000 153

Chapter 6 Into the Twenty-First Century: 2000 and Beyond 191

Appendix Population Counts, 1800-2000 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-274) and index.

ISBN:

0195152328

0195152336

OCLC:

52478388