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Beyond slavery : the multilayered legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davis, Darién J., 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007.
Colección:Jaguar books on Latin America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.