Comparative perspectives on Afro-Latin America / edited by Kwame Dixon and John Burdick ; foreword by Howard Winant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dixon, Kwame.

Burdick, John, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Latin America.

Black people.

Latin America.

Black people--Caribbean Area.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

xvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2012]

Summary:

Throughout the Americas black social movement groups are increasingly using sophisticated strategies and tactics to challenge racial and gender inequality. Simultaneously, academic interest in Afro-Latin America has increased and so, too, has the need for a fresh text detailing the cultural and political issues facing black populations throughout the region.

With existing literature focused on populations in individual countries, editors Kwame Dixon and John Burdick have encouraged their contributors to move beyond borders in this wide-ranging study. Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America offers a new, dynamic discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America. Its thematic organization and holistic approach set it apart as the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of these populations and the issues they face. Book jacket.

Contents:

Blackness and cultural difference

Nurturing Bantu Africanness in Bahia / Patricia de Santana Pinho

Strategies of the Black Pacific: Music and Diasporic Identity in Peru / Heidi Carolyn Feldman

Malandreo Negro: Gangsta Rap and the Politics of Exclusion in Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes

Performing the African Diaspora in Mexico / Angela N. Castañeda

Visions of a Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Images of Blacks in the Work of Víctor Patricio de Landaluze / Elizabeth Morán

Afro Social Movements and Mobilization

Afro-Colombian Social Movements / Peter Wade

Beyond Citizenship as We Know It: Race and Ethnicity in Afro-Colombian Struggles for Citizenship Equality / Bettina Ngweno

Black Activism in Ecuador, 1979-2009 / Ollie A. Johnson III

Afro-Ecuadorian Community Organizing and Political Struggle: Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes / Jean Muteba Rahier

The Black Movement's Foot Soldiers: Black Women and Neighborhood Struggles for Land Rights in Brazil / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

State Responses

Social Movements in Latin America: The Power of Regional and National Networks / Judith A. Morrison

Negotiating Blackness within the Multicultural State: Creole Politics and Identity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker

Todos Somos Iguales, Todos Somos Incas: Dilemmas of Afro-Peruvian Citizenship and Inca Whiteness in Peru / Shane Greene

Sociology and Racial Inequality: Challenges and Approaches in Brazil /Antonio Guimares

Black

but Not Haitian: Color, Class, and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic / Ernesto Sagás.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813037561

0813037565

OCLC:

748330870