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    1. Beyond slavery: the multilayered legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Davis,Darien J. (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2007
    Published:
    Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    289 p, 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 the African legacy has been important but little studied.

    2. Diáspora negra no Brasil

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Heywood,Linda M. (Author) and Faustino,Oswaldo (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Language:
    Portuguese
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    São Paulo: Editora Contexto
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    Portuguese translation of Linda Heywood, Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora selections (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)., 222 p., Studies the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the Americas since the Atlantic slave trade. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped their cultural institutions as they interacted with Portuguese slave traders up to 1800, then follows Central Africans through all the regions where they were taken as slaves and recaptives.

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