Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas

Name: Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas
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ISBN: 9781611860405

ISBN-10: 1611860407

ISBN-13: 9781611860405

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bernd Reiter, Kimberly Eison Simmons

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Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being “racial paradises” populated by an amalgamated “cosmic race” of mulattos and mestizos, Latin America and the Caribbean have long been sites of shifting exploitative strategies and ideologies, ranging from scientific racism and eugenics to the more sophisticated official denial of racism and ethnic difference. This book, among the first to focus on African descendants in the region, brings together diverse reflections from scholars, activists, and funding agency…

Book details

List price: $45.60
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Prologue



Itroduction




The Black Atlantic Reexamined


Building Black Diaspora Networks and Meshworks for Knowledge, Justice, Peace, and Human Rights



Pan-Afro-Latin African Americanism Revisited: Legacies and Lessons for Transnational Alliances in the New Millennium




Double-Consciousness and Black Identity-Globalized


Haitians in the Dominican Republic: Race, Politics, and Neoliberalism



Navigating the Racial Terrain: Blackness and Mixedness in the United States and the Dominican Republic



Negotiating Blackness within the Multicultural State in Latin America: Creole Politics and Identify in Nicaragua



Ethnic Identity and Political Mobilization: The Afro-Colombian Case



The Grammar of Color Identity in Brazil




Racism in ï¿½Racelessï¿½ Societies and the State the Difficulties of Addressing What Ought not Exist


Afro-Colombian Welfare: An Application of Amartya Sen's Capability Approach Using Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes Modeling (MIMIC)



Racism in a Racialized Democracy and Support for Affirmative Action Policy in Salvador and Sï¿½o Paulo, Brazil



Afro-Descendant Peoples and Public Policies: The Network of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women




Migration, Diasporas, and the Importance of Local Knowledge


Decolonizing the Imaging of African-Derived Religions



Neoliberal Dilemmas: Diaspora, Displacement, and Development in Buenos Aires



Pluralizing Race



Conclusion



Contributors