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Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America
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Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America

Kwame Dixon and John Burdick

Abstract

Throughout the Americas black social movement groups are increasingly using sophisticated strategies and tactics to challenge racial and gender inequality. Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America offers a new, dynamic discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism across Latin America.

Keywords: Afro-Latin America, Afro-Social Movements, Afro-descendants, Black consciousness and identity, Racial identity, Citizenship, Gender, Race

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2012 Print ISBN-13: 9780813037561
Published to Florida Scholarship Online: September 2012 DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813037561.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Kwame Dixon, editor

John Burdick, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Figures

Foreword: A New Hemispheric Blackness

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Kwame Dixon and John Burdick

Part 1 Blackness and Cultural Difference

1 Nurturing Bantu Africanness in Bahia

Patricia De Santana Pinho

2 Strategies of the Black Pacific: Music and Diasporic Identity in Peru

Heidi Carolyn Feldman

3 Malandreo Negro: Gangsta Rap and the Politics of Exclusion in Venezuela

Sujatha Fernandes

4 Performing the African Diaspora in Mexico

Angela N. CastaÑeda

5 Visions of a Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Images of Blacks in the Work of Víctor Patricio de Landaluze

Elizabth MorÁn

Part 2 Afro Social Movements and Mobilization

6 Afro-Colombian Social Movements

Peter Wade

7 Beyond Citizenship as We Know It: Race and Ethnicity in Afro-Colombian Struggles for Citizenship Equality

Bettina Ng̓weno

8 Black Activism in Ecuador, 1979–2009

Ollie A. JohnsonIii

9 Afro-Ecuadorian Community Organizing and Political Struggle: Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes

Jean Muteba Rahier

10 The Black Movement's Foot Soldiers: Black Women and Neighborhood Struggles for Land Rights in Brazil

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

Part 3 State Responses

11 Social Movements in Latin America: The Power of Regional and National Networks

Judith A. Morrison

12 Negotiating Blackness within the Multicultural State: Creole Politics and Identity in Nicaragua

Juliet Hooker

13 Todos Somos Iguales, Todos Somos Incas: Dilemmas of Afro-Peruvian Citizenship and Inca Whiteness in Peru

Shane Greene

14 Sociology and Racial Inequality: Challenges and Approaches in Brazil

Antônio Guimarães

15 Black—but Not Haitian: Color, Class, and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic

Ernesto Sagás

End Matter

Contributors

Index