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Afro-Latin America 1800-2000
George Reid Andrews
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Description for Afro-Latin America 1800-2000
Paperback. Presents the history of the African diaspora in Latin America from emancipation. This book includes Spanish America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, and examines how African-descended people made their way out of slavery and into freedom, and how, once free, they helped build social and political democracy in the region. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 maps, 5 tables and numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195152333
SKU
V9780195152333
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About George Reid Andrews
George Reid Andrews is UCIS Research Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900 and Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988.
Reviews for Afro-Latin America 1800-2000
...a thoughtful account that should change the way we view and teach the role of Africans in the New World.
Colin M. Maclachlan, Hispanic American Historical Review
Colin M. Maclachlan, Hispanic American Historical Review