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Beyond slavery; the multilayered legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean.


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Beyond slavery; the multilayered legacy of Africans in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies.  and the Caribbean.

Ed. by Darien J. Davis.

Rowman & Littlefield

2007

289 pages

$29.95

Paperback

Jaguar books on Latin America series

F1419

Thirteen international academics contribute 11 chapters tracing the impact and legacy of the African diaspora The African diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and cultures of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America) Europe and Asia.  in Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era. Coverage includes the multiple issues related to independence, freedom, and national identity in the first half of the 19th century, with an emphasis on the place and role of freed enslaved Enslaved may refer to:
  • Slavery, the socio-economic condition of being owned and worked by and for someone else
  • Submissive (BDSM), people playing the 'slave' part in BDSM
  • Enslaved (band), a progressive black metal/Viking metal band from Haugesund, Norway
 blacks in the revolutionary wars of independence, republicanism, and the periods of national consolidation; ideologies of inclusion and exclusion from the end of the 19th century to the 1950s, including issues such as abolition, national and race consciousness, protest, and access to full citizenship; black displacement, transnationalism, migration, black marginalization mar·gin·al·ize  
tr.v. mar·gin·al·ized, mar·gin·al·iz·ing, mar·gin·al·iz·es
To relegate or confine to a lower or outer limit or edge, as of social standing.
, difference, and diasporic consciousness from the end of WWII WWII
abbr.
World War II


WWII World War Two
 to the present; and a resource section on blacks in Latin America cinema.

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