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Forty Years: Memoirs from the Pages of a Newspaper
Los Angeles was founded in 1781. Among the forty-four individuals who founded it, there were twenty-two adults and twenty-two children. Not very many people know that there were only two Whites among the founders, but there were sixteen Indians and twenty-six...
Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
"Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America's most populous...
The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900
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Black in Latin America
"12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest, over ten and a half million, were taken to the Caribbean and...
Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World
“A groundbreaking book… provides a broad and rich sampling of documents recording the early modern voices of the African diaspora. …Wills, testaments, letters, and historical chronicles are some of the sources that scholars from various disciplines present in this...
Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands
“Presents a framework for re-conceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, this book argues that development...
Afro-Mexicans: Discourse of Race and Identity in the African Diaspora
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Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil
“An engaging, innovative history of Brazil’s black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity. This book focuses on the interconnected histories of black and indigenous people on Brazil’s Atlantic frontier,...
Afro-Latin America: 1800-2000
“This is the first history ever written of the African diaspora in Latin America from emancipation to the present. Covering the last two hundred years, and including Spanish America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, it examines how African-descended people made their way...
Afro-Latin American Studies – An Introduction
“Written for readers seeking an authoritative introduction to the field of Afro-Latin American studies, this book offers fourteen essays by leading scholars on such topics as black political thought, social movements, music, religion, and literature." Click “Read...
Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora
“My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her daughter and the children of my public school had the intelligence to pass a citywide test, Marta Moreno Vega writes in her essay. She knew then...
The Afro-Latin@ reader: History and Culture in the United States
“A kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States, addressing history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including essays, memoirs, journalism, poetry, and interviews.” Click “Read More” to access the book through...
Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas
"Through a collection of theoretically engaging and empirically grounded texts, this book examines African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latin@s in the United States in order to explore questions of black identity and representation,...
Book: An African American and Latinx history of the United States
"Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the...
The Young Lords: A Radical History | Caras Lindas podcast
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Johanna Fernandez the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History (UNC Press, February 2020), a history of the Puerto Rican counterpart of the Black Panther Party. She teaches 20th Century U.S. history and the history of social...