Blacks and Latinos have numerous historical connections. The moors of North Africa occupied Spain from about 700-1400 A.D., about the time of the Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Additionally, the slave trade which began with [Henry Louis Gates] the Navigator flourished from the 1440s, taking Africans into Portugal and Spain as servants. Many conquistadors of the New World brought with them free men of African ancestry. Finally, the Transatlantic Slave Trade sealed Afro-Hispanic connections as slaves intermingled voluntarily and involuntarily with their captors, creating variations in our color palate. Thus, our connections are longstanding. My point is that the African Diaspora experience, as was evidenced on Oscar night, is diverse and includes influences of blacks in Europe, Africa and all the Americas and the Caribbean. There are strands of the Diaspora in the Middle East, including Arab nations, and in places as unlikely as Mexico and China. So, blacks in America must begin to embrace our global heritage and we must also learn that our experiences are not superior but mere pieces of a wider tapestry of "colors." All are worth celebrating, researching and understanding. We are one great people cast to the winds by emigration and immigration, historical slavery, war, racial mixing and chance.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
435 p, Includes "The treatment of slaves in different countries: problems in the applications of the comparative method" and "The comparative focus in Latin American history";
Nellis,Eric Guest (Author) and Canadian Historical Association (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
Projected Pub Date: 1307
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
About the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World. While the book explores the idea of the African slave as a tool in the formation of new American societies, it also acknowledges the culture, humanity, and importance of the slave as a person and highlights the role of women in slave societies.
Foner,Laura (Author) and Genovese,Eugene D. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1969
Published:
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
268 p, Includes Sidney W. Mintz's "Labor and sugar in Puerto Rico and in Jamaica, 1800-1850"; Harry Hoetink's "Race relations in Curaçao and Surinam"; Eugene D. Genovese's "The treatment of slaves in different countries: problems in the applications of the comparative method"; H. Orlando Patterson's "The general causes of Jamaican slave revolts"; and Magnus Mörner's "The history of race relations in Latin America: some comments on the state of research";
