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

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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Other Authors: Davis, Darién J., 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2007]
Series:Jaguar books on Latin America series.
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Table of Contents:
  • The sounds and echoes of freedom : the impact of the Haitian Revolution on Latin America / David Geggus
  • In search of liberty : the efforts of the enslaved to attain abolition in Ecuador, 1822-1852 / Camila Townsend
  • Integral outsiders : Afro-Argentines in the era of Juan Manuel de Rosas and beyond / Ricardo D. Salvatore
  • Free pardos and mulattoes vanquish Indians : cultural civility as conquest and modernity in Honduras / Dario Eraque
  • Black abolitionists in the Quilombo de Leblon, Rio de Janeiro : symbols, organizers, and revolutionaries / Eduardo Silva
  • To be Black and to be Cuban : the dilemma of Afro-Cubans in post-Independence politics / Aline Helg.
  • 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
  • The logic of displacement : Afro-Colombians and the war in Colombia / Aviva Chomsky
  • Hip-hop and black public spheres in Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil / Sujatha Fernandes and Jason Stanyek
  • Unfinished migrations : from the Mexican south to the American South, impressions on Afro-Mexican migration to North Carolina / Bobby Vaughn and Ben Vinson III
  • Fading in : race and representation of peoples of African descent in Latin American cinema / Darién J. Davis.