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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453124703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-7425-4131-2

0-7425-7159-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Jaguar Books on Latin America Series

Disciplina

305.89608

Soggetti

Black people - Latin America - History

Black people - Race identity - Latin America

Marginality, Social - Latin America - History

African diaspora

Electronic books.

Latin America Civilization African influences

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Struggles for Independence: Republicanism and the Age of Caudillos; 1 The Sounds and Echoes of Freedom: The Impact of the Haitian Revolution on Latin America  David Geggus; 2 In Search of Liberty: The Efforts of the Enslaved to Attain Abolition in Ecuador, 1822-1852 Camilla Townsend; 3 Integral Outsiders: Afro-Argentines in the Era of Juan Manuel de Rosas and Beyond Ricardo D. Salvatore; 4 Free Pardos and Mulattoes Vanquish Indians: Cultural Civility as Conquest and Modernity in Honduras Dario Euraque

Part II: Dialogues and Challenges to Full Citizenship5 Black Abolitionists in the Quilombo of Leblon, Rio de Janeiro: Symbols, Organizers, and Revolutionaries Eduardo Silva; 6 To Be Black and to Be Cuban: The Dilemma of Afro-Cubans in Post-independence Politics Aline Helg; 7 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; Part III: Displacement, Transnationalism, and Globalization

8 The Logic of Displacement: Afro-Colombians and the War in Colombia Aviva Chomsky9 Hip-Hop and Black Public Spheres in Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil Sujatha Fernandes and Jason Stanyek; 10 Unfinished Migrations: From the Mexican South to the American South-Impressions on Afro-Mexican Migration to North Carolina Bobby Vaughn and Ben Vinson III; Part IV: Media and Selected Resources; 11 Fading In: Race and the Representation of Peoples of African Descent in Latin American Cinema Darién J. Davis; Glossary of Terms; Resource Sites, NGOs, and Human Rights Organizations; Time Line; Further Readings

IndexAbout the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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. 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