Beyond Slavery: The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean (Jaguar Books on Latin America (Rowman & Littlefield Paperback))

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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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 298
Publisher: AltaMira Press,U.S.
Published: 21 Dec 2006
ISBN 10: 0742541312
ISBN 13: 9780742541313

Media Reviews

In addition to being usable as an undergraduate reader Beyond Slavery has a reasonable claim to a place on the shelves of serious students anywhere of African diasporic experience in the New World. * Hispanic American Historical Review *
The contributors have interpreted legacy in a variety of ways, producing a collection that is interesting and informative. * Latin American Studies *
This collection is ambitious both in its scope and success in gathering together the work of an accomplished group of scholars. The book brings the breadth of historical literature on the African diaspora in Latin America to a general audience, but it is composed of works on relatively fresh topics. . . . As a whole, the collection reflects the diversity of blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean. . . . Recommended. * CHOICE *

Author Bio

Darien J. Davis is associate professor of history and Latin American studies at Middlebury College.