Comparative Perspectives on Afro-latin America

, by Dixon, Kwame; Burdick, John; Winant, Howard

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ISBN: 9780813037561 | 0813037565
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/29/2012

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Throughout the Americas black social movement groups are increasingly using sophisticated strategies and tactics to challenge racial and gender inequality. Simultaneously, academic interest in Afro-Latin America has increased and so, too, has the need for a fresh text detailing the cultural and political issues facing black populations throughout the region.

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List of Figures	p. vii
Foreword: A New Hemispheric Blackness	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Blackness and Cultural Difference
Nurturing Bantu Africanness in Bahia	p. 21
Strategies of the Black Pacific: Music and Diasporic Identity in Peru	p. 42
Malandreo Negro: Gangsta Rap and the Politics of Exclusion in Venezuela	p. 72
Performing the African Diaspora in Mexico	p. 93
Visions of a Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Images of Blacks in the Work of Victor Patricio de Landaluze	p. 114
Afro Social Movements and Mobilization
Afro-Colombian Social Movements	p. 135
Beyond Citizenship as We Know It: Race and Ethnicity in Afro-Colombian Struggles for Citizenship Equality	p. 156
Black Activism in Ecuador, 1979-2009	p. 176
Afro-Ecuadorian Community Organizing and Political Struggle: Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes	p. 198
The Black Movement's Foot Soldiers: Black Women and Neighborhood Struggles for Land Flights in Brazil	p. 219
State Responses
Social Movements in Latin America: The Power of Regional and National Networks	p. 243
Negotiating Blackness within the Multicultural State: Creole Politics and Identity in Nicaragua	p. 264
Todos Somos Iguales, Todos Somos Incas: Dilemmas of Afro-Peruvian Citizenship and Inca Whiteness in Peru	p. 282
Sociology and Racial Inequality: Challenges and Approaches in Brazil	p. 305
Black-but Not Haitian: Color, Class, and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic	p. 323
List of Contributors	p. 345
Index	p. 349
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