Beyond Slavery: The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean » (1st Edition)

Beyond Slavery traces the enduring impact and legacy of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era. In a rich set of essays, the volume explores the multiple ways that Africans have affected political, economic, and cultural life throughout the region. The contributors engage readers interested in the African diaspora in a series of vigorous debates ranging from agency and resistance to transculturation, displacement, cross-national dialogue, and popular culture. Documenting the array of diverse voices of Afro-Latin Americans throughout the region, this interdisciplinary book brings to life both their histories and contemporary experiences.

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     1
Struggles for Independence: Republicanism and the Age of Caudillos
The Sounds and Echoes of Freedom: The Impact of the Haitian Revolution on Latin America   David Geggus     19
In Search of Liberty: The Efforts of the Enslaved to Attain Abolition in Ecuador, 1822-1852   Camilla Townsend     37
Integral Outsiders: Afro-Argentines in the Era of Juan Manuel de Rosas and Beyond   Ricardo D. Salvatore     57
Free Pardos and Mulattoes Vanquish Indians: Cultural Civility as Conquest and Modernity in Honduras   Dario Euraque     81
Dialogues and Challenges to Full Citizenship
Black Abolitionists in the Quilombo of Leblon, Rio de Janeiro: Symbols, Organizers, and Revolutionaries   Eduardo Silva     109
To Be Black and to Be Cuban: The Dilemma of Afro-Cubans in Post-independence Politics   Aline Helg     123
Pan-Africanism, Negritude, and the Currency of Blackness: Cuba, the Francophone Caribbean, and Brazil in Comparative Perspective, 1930-1950s   Darien J. Davis   Judith Michelle Williams     143
Displacement, Transnationalism, and Globalization
The Logic of Displacement: Afro-Colombians and the War in Colombia   Aviva Chomsky     171
Hip-Hop and Black Public Spheres in Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil   Sujatha Fernandes   Jason Stanyek     199
Unfinished Migrations: From the Mexican South to the American South-Impressions on Afro-Mexican Migration to North Carolina   Bobby Vaughn   Ben Vinson III     223
Media and Selected Resources
Fading In: Race and the Representation of Peoples of African Descent in Latin American Cinema   Darien J. Davis     249
Glossary of Terms     267
Resource Sites, NGOs, and Human Rights Organizations     269
Time Line     271
Further Readings     275
Index     281
About the Contributors     287