Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000

Name: Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
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ISBN: 9780195152333

ISBN-10: 0195152336

ISBN-13: 9780195152333

Edition: 2004

Authors: George Reid Andrews

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While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America as the United States. In this, the first history of the African diaspora in Latin America from emancipation to the present, George Reid Andrews deftly synthesizes the history of people of African descent in every Latin American country from Mexico and the Caribbean to Argentina. He examines how African peooples and their descendants made their way from slavery to freedom and how they helped shape and responded…

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List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/24/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.18" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

George Reid Andrews is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author ofAfro-Latin America, 1800-2000.



Maps


Introduction



1800



"An Exterminating Bolt of Lightning": The Wars for Freedom, 1810-1890



"Our New Citizens, the Blacks": The Politics of Freedom, 1810-1890



"A Transfusion of New Blood": Whitening, 1880-1930



Browning and Blackening, 1930-2000



Into the Twenty-First Century: 2000 and Beyond



Population Counts, 1800-2000


Glossary


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index