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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449759503321

Autore

Andrews George Reid <1951->

Titolo

Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 [[electronic resource] /] / George Reid Andrews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-280-50188-X

9786610501885

0-19-803477-6

1-4237-2014-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

980/.00496

Soggetti

Black people - Latin America - History

Racially mixed people - Latin America - History

Electronic books.

Latin America Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1 1800; Chapter 2 "An Exterminating Bolt of Lightning": The Wars for Freedom, 1810-1890; Chapter 3 "Our New Citizens, the Blacks": The Politics of Freedom, 1810-1890; Chapter 4 "A Transfusion of New Blood": Whitening, 1880-1930; Chapter 5 Browning and Blackening, 1930-2000; Chapter 6 Into the Twenty-First Century: 2000 and Beyond; Appendix: Population Counts, 1800-2000; Glossary; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 peooples and