Afro-Latin American Studies
An Introduction

Examines the full range of humanities and social science scholarship on people of African descent in Latin America.

Alejandro de la Fuente (Edited by), George Reid Andrews (Edited by)

9781107177628, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 April 2018

660 pages
23.5 x 16 x 4.2 cm, 1.03 kg

'The political, cultural and social landscape of Afro-Latin America has undergone significant transformation on the cusp of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. de la Fuente and Andrew's handbook is a timely, insightful collection of essays by some of the most important specialists of the region, tracking the proliferation and transformation of Afro-Latin political mobilization and identification, its variation and diversity, while situating these contemporary transformations against the backdrop of racial slavery and exceptionalist credos of racial democracy found throughout the region.' Michael G. Hanchard, University of Pennsylvania

Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies. Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of knowledge on a broad variety of topics, including Afro-Latin American music, religions, literature, art history, political thought, social movements, legal history, environmental history, and ideologies of racial inclusion. This volume connects the region's long history of slavery to the major political, social, cultural, and economic developments of the last two centuries. Written by leading scholars in each of those topics, the volume provides an introduction to the field of Afro-Latin American studies that is not available from any other source and reflects the disciplinary and thematic richness of this emerging field.

1. Afro-Latin American studies: an introduction Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews
Part I. Inequalities: 2. The slave trade to Latin America: a historiographical assessment Roquinaldo Ferreira and Tatiana Seijas
3. Inequality: race, class, gender George Reid Andrews
4. Afro-indigenous interactions, relations, and comparisons Peter Wade
5. Law, silence, and racialized inequalities in the history of Afro-Brazil Brodwyn Fischer, Keila Grinberg and Hebe Mattos
Part II. Politics: 6. Currents in Afro-Latin American political and social thought Frank Guridy and Juliet Hooker
7. Rethinking black mobilization in Latin America Tianna Paschel
8. 'Racial democracy' and racial inclusion: hemispheric histories Paulina Alberto and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Part III. Culture: 9. Literary liberties: the authority of Afrodescendant authors Doris Sommer
10. Afro-Latin American art Alejandro de la Fuente
11. A century and a half of scholarship on Afro-Latin American music Robin Moore
12. Afro-Latin American religions Stephan Palmié and Paul Christopher Johnson
13. Environment, space and place: cultural geographies of colonial Afro-Latin America Karl Offen
Part IV. Transnational Spaces: 14. Transnational frames of Afro-Latin experience: evolving spaces and means of connection, 1600–2000 Lara Putnam
15. Afro-Latinos: speaking through silences and rethinking the geographies of blackness Jennifer A. Jones.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]