Neither Enemies nor Friends : Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos / by S. Oboler, A. Dzidzienyo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dzidzienyo, Anani, 1941-

Oboler, Suzanne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Ethnology--Latin America.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Education.

African Americans.

Sociology.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Latin American Culture.

African American Culture.

America--Race relations.

America.

Latin America--Race relations.

Latin America.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Latin American Culture.

Education.

African American Culture.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

Palgrave Macmillan

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In this collection, leading scholars focus on the contemporary meanings and diverse experiences of blackness in specific countries of the hemisphere, including the United States. The anthology introduces new perspectives on comparative forms of racialization in the Americas and presents its implications both for Latin American societies, and for Latinos' relations with African Americans in the U.S.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

PART 1 COMPARATIVE RACIALIZATION IN THE AMERICAS

1 Flows and Counterflows: Latinas/os, Blackness, and Racialization in Hemispheric Perspective

PART 2 THE POLITICS OF RACIALIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA

2 A Region in Denial: Racial Discrimination and Racism in Latin America

3 Afro-Ecuadorian Responses to Racism: Between Citizenship and Corporatism

4 The Foreignness of Racism: Pride and Prejudice Among Peru's Limeños in the 1990s

5 Bad Boys and Peaceful Garifuna: Transnational Encounters Between Racial Stereotypes of Honduras and the United States (and Their Implications for the Study of Race in the Americas)

6 Afro-Mexico: Blacks, Indígenas, Politics, and the Greater Diaspora

7 The Changing World of Brazilian Race Relations?

PART 3 THE POLITICS OF RACIALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES

8 Framing the Discussion of African American-Latino Relations: A Review and Analysis

9 Neither White nor Black: The Representation of Racial Identity Among Puerto Ricans on the Island and in the U.S. Mainland

10 Scripting Race, Finding Place: African Americans, Afro-Cubans, and the Diasporic Imaginary in the United States

11 Identity, Power, and Socioracial Hierarchies Among Haitian Immigrants in Florida

12 Interminority Relations in Legislative Settings: The Case of African Americans and Latinos

13 African American and Latina/o Cooperation in Challenging Racial Profiling

14 Racial Politics in Multiethnic America: Black and Latina/o Identities and Coalitions

15 Racism in the Americas and the Latino Scholar

Appendix: Witnessing History: An Octogenarian Reflects on Fifty Years of African American-Latino Relations

Notes on the Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611369354

9781281369352

1281369357

9781403982636

1403982635