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259 p, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge—or deny—their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean and Latin America. Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries—Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru—through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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450 p, Contents: The Black experience in Chile / William F. Sater -- Health conditions in the slave trade of colonial New Granada / David L. Chandler -- Manumission, Libres, and Black resistance: the Colombian Chocó, 1680-1810 / William F. Sharp -- African slave trade and economic development in Amazonia, 1700-1800 / Colin M. MacLachan -- Nineteenth-century Brazilian slavery / Robert Conrad -- The implementation of slave legislation in eighteenth-century New Granada / Norman A. Meiklejohn -- Slavery, race, and social structure in Cuba during the nineteenth century / Franklin W. Knight -- The abolition of slavery in Venezuela: a nonevent / John V. Lombardi -- Abolition and the issue of the Black freedman's future in Brazil / Robert Brent Toplin -- Beyond poverty: the Negro and the mulatto in Brazil / Florestan Fernandes -- The question of color in Puerto Rico / Thomas G. Mathews -- Elitist attitudes toward race in twentieth-century Venezuela / Winthrop R. Wright -- The gradual integration of the Black in Cuba: under the colony, the republic, and the revolution / Marianne Masferrer and Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Afro-Brazilians: myths and realities / Arthur F. Corwin.
