Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America.

By: Dixon, KwameContributor(s): Burdick, JohnMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Florida : University Press of Florida, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (382 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813042695Subject(s): Blacks - Latin AmericaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin AmericaDDC classification: 305.896/08 LOC classification: F1419.N4 -- C65 2012ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword: A New Hemispheric Blackness -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. BLACKNESS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE -- 1. Nurturing Bantu Africanness in Bahia -- 2. Strategies of the Black Pacific: Music and Diasporic Identity in Peru -- 3. Malandreo Negro: Gangsta Rap and the Politics of Exclusion in Venezuela -- 4. Performing the African Diaspora in Mexico -- 5. Visions of a Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Images of Blacks in the Work of Víctor Patricio de Landaluze -- PART 2. AFRO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND MOBILIZATION -- 6. Afro-Colombian Social Movements -- 7. Beyond Citizenship as We Know It: Race and Ethnicity in Afro-Colombian Struggles for Citizenship Equality -- 8. Black Activism in Ecuador, 1979-2009 -- 9. Afro-Ecuadorian Community Organizing and Political Struggle: Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes -- 10. The Black Movement's Foot Soldiers: Black Women and Neighborhood Struggles for Land Rights in Brazil -- PART 3. STATE RESPONSES -- 11. Social Movements in Latin America: The Power of Regional and National Networks -- 12. Negotiating Blackness within the Multicultural State: Creole Politics and Identity in Nicaragua -- 13. Todos Somos Iguales, Todos Somos Incas: Dilemmas of Afro-Peruvian Citizenship and Inca Whiteness in Peru -- 14. Sociology and Racial Inequality: Challenges and Approaches in Brazil -- 15. Black-but Not Haitian: Color, Class, and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America offers a new, dynamic discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America. Its thematic organization and holistic approach set it apart as the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of these populations and the issues they face currently available.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword: A New Hemispheric Blackness -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. BLACKNESS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE -- 1. Nurturing Bantu Africanness in Bahia -- 2. Strategies of the Black Pacific: Music and Diasporic Identity in Peru -- 3. Malandreo Negro: Gangsta Rap and the Politics of Exclusion in Venezuela -- 4. Performing the African Diaspora in Mexico -- 5. Visions of a Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Images of Blacks in the Work of Víctor Patricio de Landaluze -- PART 2. AFRO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND MOBILIZATION -- 6. Afro-Colombian Social Movements -- 7. Beyond Citizenship as We Know It: Race and Ethnicity in Afro-Colombian Struggles for Citizenship Equality -- 8. Black Activism in Ecuador, 1979-2009 -- 9. Afro-Ecuadorian Community Organizing and Political Struggle: Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes -- 10. The Black Movement's Foot Soldiers: Black Women and Neighborhood Struggles for Land Rights in Brazil -- PART 3. STATE RESPONSES -- 11. Social Movements in Latin America: The Power of Regional and National Networks -- 12. Negotiating Blackness within the Multicultural State: Creole Politics and Identity in Nicaragua -- 13. Todos Somos Iguales, Todos Somos Incas: Dilemmas of Afro-Peruvian Citizenship and Inca Whiteness in Peru -- 14. Sociology and Racial Inequality: Challenges and Approaches in Brazil -- 15. Black-but Not Haitian: Color, Class, and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America offers a new, dynamic discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America. Its thematic organization and holistic approach set it apart as the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of these populations and the issues they face currently available.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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