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Title Comparative perspectives on Afro-Latin America / edited by Kwame Dixon and John Burdick ; foreword by Howard Winant.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 365 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Blackness and cultural difference -- Nurturing Bantu Africanness in Bahia / Patricia de Santana Pinho -- Strategies of the Black Pacific: Music and Diasporic Identity in Peru / Heidi Carolyn Feldman -- Malandreo Negro: Gangsta Rap and the Politics of Exclusion in Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes -- Performing the African Diaspora in Mexico / Angela N. Castañeda -- Visions of a Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Images of Blacks in the Work of Víctor Patricio de Landaluze / Elizabeth Morán -- Afro Social Movements and Mobilization -- Afro-Colombian Social Movements / Peter Wade -- Beyond Citizenship as We Know It: Race and Ethnicity in Afro-Colombian Struggles for Citizenship Equality / Bettina Ngweno -- Black Activism in Ecuador, 1979-2009 / Ollie A. Johnson III -- Afro-Ecuadorian Community Organizing and Political Struggle: Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes / Jean Muteba Rahier -- The Black Movement's Foot Soldiers: Black Women and Neighborhood Struggles for Land Rights in Brazil / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry -- State Responses -- Social Movements in Latin America: The Power of Regional and National Networks / Judith A. Morrison -- Negotiating Blackness within the Multicultural State: Creole Politics and Identity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker -- Todos Somos Iguales, Todos Somos Incas: Dilemmas of Afro-Peruvian Citizenship and Inca Whiteness in Peru / Shane Greene -- Sociology and Racial Inequality: Challenges and Approaches in Brazil /Antonio Guimares -- Black -- but Not Haitian: Color, Class, and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic / Ernesto Sagás.
Summary This original collection of essays discusses the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America.
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Subject Black people -- Latin America -- Ethnic identity.
Black people.
Latin America.
Ethnicity.
Black people -- Caribbean Area -- Ethnic identity.
Caribbean Area.
Black people -- Latin America -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Black people -- Caribbean Area -- Politics and government.
Black people -- Race identity.
Black people -- Race identity.
Latin America -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Caribbean Area -- Race relations.
Latin America -- Civilization -- African influences.
Civilization.
Caribbean Area -- Civilization -- African influences.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dixon, Kwame.
Burdick, John, 1959-
Other Form: Print version: Comparative perspectives on Afro-Latin America. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012 9780813037561 (DLC) 2011037509 (OCoLC)748330870
ISBN 9780813042695 (electronic book)
0813042690 (electronic book)
9780813037561 (alkaline paper)
0813037565 (alkaline paper)