Fischer reviews the two-volume work Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: social dynamics and cultural transformations, by Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Arlene Torres>
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Originally published: London : Latin American Bureau, 2006., 205 p., Relates the story of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, an organization based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that employs music and an appreciation for black culture to inspire residents of shantytowns to resist the drugs that are ruining their neighborhoods.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
371 p, Contents: Race and class in Mexico / Woodrow Borah -- On the concept of social race in the Americas / Charles Wagley -- Colour prejudice in Brazil / Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- Mass immigration and modernization in Argentina / Gino Germani -- Race, color, and class in Central America and the Andes / Julian Pitt-Rivers -- Beyond poverty : the Negro and the mulatto in Brazil / Florestan Fernandes -- The present status of Afro-American research in Latin America / Roger Bastide -- African culture in Brazilian art / Abdias Do Nascimento -- A comparative study of the assimilation of the Chinese in New York City and Lima, Peru / Bernard Wong -- Ethnicity, secret societies, and associations : the Japanese in Brazil / Takashi Maeyama -- Research in the political economy of Afro-Latin America / Pierre-Michel Fontaine -- Minority oppression : toward analyses that clarify and strategies that liberate / William Bollinger and Daniel Manny Lund -- Brazilian racial democracy : reality or myth? / Carlos Hasenbalg and Suellen Huntington -- Race and class in Brazil : historical perspectives / Thomas E. Skidmore -- Peasant politics and the Mexican state : indigenous compliance in highland Chiapas / George A. Collier -- Black political protest in São Paulo, 1888-1988 / George Reid Andrews -- Challenging the nation-state in Latin America/ Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- Rethinking race in Brazil / Howard Winant