Maps
Introduction
1. 1800
2. "An Exterminating Bolt of LIghtning": The Wars for Freedom,
1810-1890
3. "Our New Citizens, the Blacks": The Politics of Freedom,
1810-1890
4. "A Transfusion of New Blood": Whitening, 1880-1930
5. Browning and Blackening, 1930-2000
6. Into the Twenty-First Century: 2000 and Beyond
Appendix: Population Counts, 1800-2000
Glossary
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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.
"Do not be fooled by its essential readability; this book belongs
on the same shelf as the venerable Cambridge general
histories...Essential. All college collections."--J. Rosenthal,
SUNY College at Oneonta
"Andrews' Afro-Latin American is a compelling historical
narrative...Such a work is long overdue."--Dwame Dixon, Latin
American Research Review
"The title and the text of the book may be brief, but Reid Andrews'
latest work is an impressively thorough survey of the experiences
of Afro-Latin Americans from the independence era to the present.
In 200 pages he places the experiences of the 'black' and 'brown'
descendents of the area's slaves in the major political and
economic developments of the time, and traces how they have both
affected and been affected by those developments. Coherently
presented and
clearly written, this will probably remain the definitive overview
of the history of modern Afro-Latin America for years to
come."--The Americas
"Afro-Latin America is a deftly balanced and impressively nuanced
study that is remarkable for its geographical span, covering the
area (except for the non-Hispanic Caribbean) from Mexico to
Argentina. This highly accessible, magisterially authoritative
account fills a long-standing void in the bibliography for Latin
American Studies, American Cultures and the history of the Americas
in general. Insightful, intellectually provocative, and
engagingly
written, this book should find a wide audience among both
specialists and non-specialists."--Franklin W. Knight, Johns
Hopkins University
"George Reid Andrews's tour de force draws on a breath-taking range
of scholarship published in and on Latin America to make a powerful
argument about the contributions of blacks and mulattos to national
and regional histories."--American Historical Review
"George Reid Andrews has drawn a rich array of scholarship into a
splendid historical synthesis, upon which he builds his own
innovative interpretation. Conveying the texture of lived
experience for people of African descent in Latin America, while
exploring the dynamics of historical change, this book is a superb
accomplishment."--Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan
"Andrews has managed to rescue from what had traditionally been the
shadows of Latin American historiography the modern history of
Afro-Latins. By doing so he has started us on the needed road to a
more comprehenseive discussion of race and nation in the American
hemisphere."--American Quarterly
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