Beyond slavery : the multilayered legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Darién J. Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Darién J., 1964-

Series:

Jaguar books on Latin America series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Latin America--History.

Black people.

Marginality, Social.

History.

Black people--Race identity.

Latin America.

Black people--Race identity--Latin America.

Latin America--Civilization--African influences.

Civilization.

Marginality, Social--Latin America--History.

African diaspora.

Physical Description:

vii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2007]

Summary:

Beyond Slavery traces the enduring impact and legacy of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era. In a rich set of essays, the volume explores the multiple ways that Africans have affected political, economic, and cultural life throughout the region. Focusing on areas traditionally associated with Afro-Latin American culture such as Brazil and the Caribbean basin, this innovative work also highlights places such as Rio de la Plata and Central America, where the African legacy has been important but little studied. The contributors engage readers interested in the African diaspora in a series of vigorous debates ranging from agency and resistance to transculturation, displacement, cross-national dialogue, and popular culture. Documenting the array of diverse voices of Afro-Latin Americans throughout the region, this interdisciplinary book brings to life both their histories and contemporary experiences.

Contents:

The sounds and echoes of freedom : the impact of the Haitian Revolution on Latin America / David Geggus

In search of liberty : the efforts of the enslaved to attain abolition in Ecuador, 1822-1852 / Camila Townsend

Integral outsiders : Afro-Argentines in the era of Juan Manuel de Rosas and beyond / Ricardo D. Salvatore

Free pardos and mulattoes vanquish Indians : cultural civility as conquest and modernity in Honduras / Dario Eraque

Black abolitionists in the Quilombo de Leblon, Rio de Janeiro : symbols, organizers, and revolutionaries / Eduardo Silva

To be Black and to be Cuban : the dilemma of Afro-Cubans in post-Independence politics / Aline Helg

Pan-Africanism, negritude, and the currency of blackness : Cuba, the Francophone Caribbean, and Brazil in comparative perspective, 1930-1950s / Darién J. Davis and Judith Michelle Williams

The logic of displacement : Afro-Colombians and the war in Colombia / Aviva Chomsky

Hip-hop and black public spheres in Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil / Sujatha Fernandes and Jason Stanyek

Unfinished migrations : from the Mexican south to the American South, impressions on Afro-Mexican migration to North Carolina / Bobby Vaughn and Ben Vinson III

Fading in : race and representation of peoples of African descent in Latin American cinema / Darién J. Davis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-279) and index.

ISBN:

0742541304

0742541312

9780742541306

9780742541313

OCLC:

68693974