Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000

by Andrews, George Reid

• ISBN13: 9780195152326
• ISBN10: 0195152328
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 to political, economic, and cultural changes in their societies. Individually and collectively they pursued the goals of freedom, equality, and citizenship through military service, political parties, civic organizations, labor unions, religious activity, and other avenues. Spanning two centuries, this tour de force should be read by anyone interested in Latin American history, the history of slavery, and the African diaspora, as well as the future of Latin America.

Author Biography

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 Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988.

Table of Contents

Maps	xi
Introduction	3	(8)
1800	11	(42)
``An Exterminating Bolt of Lightning'': The Wars for Freedom, 1810--1890	53	(32)
``Our New Citizens, the Blacks'': The Politics of Freedom, 1810--1890	85	(32)
``A Transfusion of New Blood'': Whitening, 1880--1930	117	(36)
Browning and Blackening, 1930--2000	153	(38)
Into the Twenty-First Century: 2000 and Beyond	191	(12)
Appendix: Population Counts, 1800--2000	203	(6)
Glossary	209	(4)
Notes	213	(34)
Selected Bibliography	247	(28)
Index	275