Rewriting the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean : beyond disciplinary and national boundaries / edited by Robert Lee Adams Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, Robert Lee, Jr., editor.

Series:

African Diaspora, 1860-Present (Text)

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

African diaspora.

Africans--Caribbean Area--History.

Africans.

Africans--Latin America--History.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 171 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge (Publisher), 2013.

Language Note:

Primarily in English with occasional passages in Spanish.

Summary:

This volume considers the African Diaspora through the under-explored Afro-Latino experience in the Caribbean and South America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches such as feminism and Atlantic studies, the authors explore the production of historical and contemporary identities and cultural practices within and beyond the boundaries of the nation-state. Rewriting the African Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America illustrates how far the fields of Afro-Latino and African Diaspora studies have advanced beyond the Herskovits and Frazier debates of the 1940s. The book's arguments complicate Herskovits' insistence on Black culture being an exclusive reflection of African survivals, as well as Frazier's counter-claim of African American culture being a result of slavery and colonialism. This collection of thought-provoking essays extends the concepts of diaspora and trans-nationalism, forcing the reader to reassess their present limitations as interpretive tools. In the process, Afro-Latinos are rendered visible as national actors and transnational citizens. This book was originally published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora.

Contents:

1 Rewriting the African Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America: Beyond Disciplinary and National Boundaries

2 An Analysis of the Role of the Study of the African Diaspora within the Field of Atlantic History

3 Comparison and Connection in the Study of Afro-Latin America

4 Africans, Afro-Brazilians and Afro-Portuguese in the Iberian Inquisition in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

5 'Political Changuı': Race, Political Culture, and Black Civic Activism in the Early Cuban Republic

6 Bongo Ita: Leopard Society Music and Language in West Africa, Western Cuba, and New York City

7 El Puente: Transnationalism Among Cubans of English-Speaking Caribbean Descent

8 Constructing and Promoting African Diaspora Identity in the Dominican Republic: the Emergence of Casa de la Identidad de las Mujeres Afro

9 State Violence and the Ethnographic Encounter: Feminist Research and Racial Embodiment

10 The Road Ahead in Afro-Latino Studies: Restless Conclusions.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

1130730815