Black in Latin America

Resource Information

The work Black in Latin America represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Black in Latin America

Statement of responsibility

Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Creator

• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr

Subject

• Blacks -- Latin America -- History
• Blacks -- Race identity
• Blacks -- Race identity -- Latin America
• Civilization -- African influences
• Ethnische Beziehung
• Ethnische Identität
• Geschichte.
• History
• Blacks
• Latin America
• Latin America -- Civilization | African influences
• Latin America -- Race relations
• Race relations
• Schwarze
• Slavery
• Slavery -- Latin America -- History
• Lateinamerika

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest, over ten and a half million, were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This astonishing fact changes the entire picture of the history of slavery in the Western hemisphere, and of its lasting cultural impact. These millions of Africans created new and vibrant cultures, magnificently compelling syntheses of various African, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish influences. Despite their great numbers, the cultural and social worlds that they created remain largely unknown to most Americans, except for certain popular, cross-over musical forms. So the author set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their origin acknowledge or deny their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean and Latin America. Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, he unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries: Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru, through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism that has sometimes sought to keep the black cultural presence from view

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

980/.00496

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

F1419.N4

LC item number

G38 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography