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627 p, This study explores issues of race, racism, and strategies to improve the status of people of African descent in Brazil, South Africa and the USA. The authors provide in-depth information about each country, together with analyses of cross-cutting themes;
Hopenhayn,Martín (Author), Bello,Alvaro (Author), and United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Social Development Division (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2001
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Santiago de Chile: CEPAL, División de Desarrollo Social
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68 p., After centuries of exclusion and domination at the beginning of the new millennium indigenous peoples, Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean have the worst economic and social indicators and have little cultural recognition and access to decision makers. In Latin America and the Caribbean five countries account for nearly 90% of the regional indigenous population: Peru (27%), Mexico (26%), Guatemala (15%), Bolivia (12%), and Ecuador (8%). Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean region in the black and mestizo population reaches 150 million people, which means about 30% of the total population of the region. With regard to its geographical location, located especially in Brazil (50%) ;, Colombia (20%); and Venezuela (10%).
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editores de América Latina
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510 p, Contents: I. LOS ESTUDIOS AFRICANISTICOS EN LA ARGENTINA. Hebe Clementi, "La negritud y la historia americana," p 41-48; Maria Elena Vela, "Historia y actualidad de los estudios," p 49-62; Marisa Pinau, "La ensenanza de historia de Africa subsahariana en la Argentina," p 63-70; M.V. Pereyra de Findanza, "Los que son demsiado negro...", p 71-86. II. LA TRATA DE ESCLAVOS. LA PBLACION AFROARGENTINA. Florencia Guzman, "El destino de los esclavos de la Compania," p 87-108; Silvia C. Mallo, "Mujeres esclavas en America a fines de siglo XVIII," p 109-126; Liliana Crespi, "Utilizacion de mano de obra esclava en areas mineras y subsidarias," p 127-162. III. LA PRESENCIA LINGUISTICA Y LITERARIA. Mario Corcuera Ibanez, "La presencia linguistica y literaria," p 163-168; Dina V. Picotti, "Un modo de pensar y de lenguaje," p 169-198; Beatriz Seibel, "La presencia afroargentina en el espectaculo," p 199-208; Jose Curbelo, "Los payadores negros en el Rio de la Plata," p 209-214.
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238 p., Study of the relations between Haiti and black America from the colonial period to the present, the author shows how historical ties between these two communities of the African diaspora have affected their respective histories, cultures and community lives. R
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304 p, Contents: pt. 1. Gender, work, and residence. Early-twentieth-century Caribbean women: migration and social networks in New York City / Irma Watkins-Owens ; Where New York's West Indians work / Suzanne Model ; West Indians and the residential landscape of New York / Kyle D. Crowder and Lucky M. Tedrow -- pt. 2. Transnational perspectives. Transnational social relations and the politics of national identity: an eastern Caribbean study / Linda Basch ; New York as a locality in a global family network / Karen Fog Olwig -- pt. 3. Race, ethnicity, and the second generation. "Black like who?" Afro-Caribbean immigrants, African Americans, and the politics of group identity / Reuel Rogers ; Growing up West Indian and African American: gender and class differences in the second generation / Mary C. Waters ; Experiencing success: structuring the perception of opportunities for West Indians / Vilna F. Bashi Bobb and Averil Y. Clarke ; Tweaking a monolith: the West Indian immigrant encounter with "Blackness" / Milton Vickerman ; Conclusion: Invisible no more? West Indian Americans in the social scientific imagination / Philip Kasinitz
