Beyond Slavery
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. Focusing on areas traditionally associated with Afro-Latin American culture such as Brazil and the Caribbean basin, this innovative work also highlights places such as Rio de La Plata and Central America, where...
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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-Latin Americans throughout the region, this interdisciplinary book brings to life both their histories and contemporary experiences.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Struggles for Independence: Republicanism and the Age of CaudillosThe Sounds and Echoes of Freedom: The Impact of the Haitian Revolution on Latin America David Geggus 19In Search of Liberty: The Efforts of the Enslaved to Attain Abolition in Ecuador, 1822-1852 Camilla Townsend 37Integral Outsiders: Afro-Argentines in the Era of Juan Manuel de Rosas and Beyond Ricardo D. Salvatore 57Free Pardos and Mulattoes Vanquish Indians: Cultural Civility as Conquest and Modernity in Honduras Dario Euraque 81Dialogues and Challenges to Full CitizenshipBlack Abolitionists in the Quilombo of Leblon, Rio de Janeiro: Symbols, Organizers, and Revolutionaries Eduardo Silva 109To Be Black and to Be Cuban: The Dilemma of Afro-Cubans in Post-independence Politics Aline Helg 123Pan-Africanism, Negritude, and the Currency of Blackness: Cuba, the Francophone Caribbean, and Brazil in Comparative Perspective, 1930-1950s Darien J. Davis Judith Michelle Williams 143Displacement, Transnationalism, and GlobalizationThe Logic of Displacement: Afro-Colombians and the War in Colombia Aviva Chomsky 171Hip-Hop and Black Public Spheres in Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil Sujatha Fernandes Jason Stanyek 199Unfinished Migrations: From the Mexican South to the American South-Impressions on Afro-Mexican Migration to North Carolina Bobby Vaughn Ben Vinson III 223Media and Selected ResourcesFading In: Race and the Representation of Peoples of African Descent in Latin American Cinema Darien J. Davis 249Glossary of Terms 267Resource Sites, NGOs, and Human Rights Organizations 269Time Line 271Further Readings 275Index 281About the Contributors 287
\ ChoiceThis collection is ambitious both in its scope and success in gathering together the work of an accomplished group of scholars. The book brings the breadth of historical literature on the African diaspora in Latin America to a general audience, but it is composed of works on relatively fresh topics….As a whole, the collection reflects the diversity of blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean….Recommended.\ \ \ \ \ HahrIn addition to being usable as an undergraduate reader Beyond Slavery has a reasonable claim to a place on the shelves of serious students anywhere of African diasporic experience in the New World.\ \
