Afro-descendants, identity, and the struggle for development in the Americas /

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Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being "racial paradises" populated by an amalgamated "cosmic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Reiter, Bernd, 1968- (Editor), Simmons, Kimberly Eison (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2012.
Series:Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series.
Subjects:
Black people > Race identity > Latin America.
Racially mixed people > Race identity > Latin America.
African Americans > Race identity.
Racially mixed people > Race identity > United States.
Social integration > Latin America.
Social integration > United States.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique.
Intégration sociale > Amérique latine.
Intégration sociale > États-Unis.
Personnes noires > Identité ethnique > Amérique latine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
African Americans > Race identity
Black people > Race identity
Race relations
Racially mixed people > Race identity
Social integration
Latin America > Race relations.
United States > Race relations.
Amérique latine > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
Latin America
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Building black diaspora networks and meshworks for knowledge, justice, peace, and human rights / Faye V. Harrison
  • Pan-Afro-Latin African Americanism revisited : legacies and lessons for transnational alliances in the new millennium / Darién J. Davis, Tianna S. Paschel, and Judith A. Morrison
  • Haitians in the Dominican Republic : race, politics, and neoliberalism / Lauren Derby
  • Navigating the racial terrain : blackness and mixedness in the United States and the Dominican Republic / Kimberly Eison Simmons
  • Negotiating blackness within the multicultural state in Latin America : creole politics and identity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker
  • Ethnic identity and political mobilization : the Afro-Colombian case / Leonardo Reales
  • The grammar of color identity in Brazil / Seth Racusen
  • Afro-Colombian welfare : an application of Amartya Sen's capability approach using multiple indicators multiple causes modeling (MIMIC) / Paula A. Lezama
  • Racism in a racialized democracy and support for affirmative action policy in Salvador and São Paulo, Brazil / Gladys Mitchell-Walthour
  • Afro-descendant peoples and public policies : the network of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women / Altagracia Balcácer Molina and Dorotea Wilson
  • Decolonizing the imaging of African-derived religions / Amanda D. Concha-Holmes
  • Neoliberal dilemmas : diaspora, displacement, and development in Buenos Aires / Judith M. Anderson
  • Pluralizing race / Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper.

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