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Darién J. Davis is associate professor of history and Latin American studies at Middlebury College.
Introduction
Part I: Struggles for Independence: Republicanism and the Age of Caudillos
Chapter 1: The Sounds and Echoes of Freedom: The Impact of the Haitian Revolution on Latin America, David Geggus
Chapter 2: In Search of Liberty: The Efforts of the Enslaved to Attain Abolition in Ecuador, 1822–1852, Camilla Townsend
Chapter 3: Integral Outsiders: Afro-Argentines in the Era of Juan Manuel de Rosas and Beyond, Ricardo D. Salvatore
Chapter 4: Free Pardos and Mulattoes Vanquish Indians: Cultural Civility as Conquest and Modernity in Honduras, Dario Euraque
Part II: Dialogues and Challenges to Full Citizenship
Chapter 5: Black Abolitionists in the Quilombo of Leblon, Rio de Janeiro: Symbols, Organizers, and Revolutionaries, Eduardo Silva
Chapter 6: To Be Black and to Be Cuban: The Dilemma of Afro-Cubans in Post-independence Politics, Aline Helg
Chapter 7: Pan-Africanism, Negritude, and the Currency of Blackness: Cuba, the Francophone Caribbean, and Brazil in Comparative Perspective, 1930–1950s, Darién J. Davis and Judith Michelle Willams
Part III: Displacement, Transnationalism, and Globalization
Chapter 8: The Logic of Displacement: Afro-Colombians and the War in Colombia, Aviva Chomsky
Chapter 9: Hip-Hop and Black Public Spheres in Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil, Sujatha Fernandes and Jason Stanyek
Chapter 10: Unfinished Migrations: From the Mexican South to the American South—Impressions on Afro-Mexican Migration to North Carolina, Bobby Vaughn and Ben Vinson III
Part IV: Media and Selected Resources
Chapter 11: Fading In: Race and the Representation of Peoples of African Descent in Latin American Cinema, Darién J. Davis
Glossary of Terms
Resource Sites, NGOs, and Human Rights Organizations
Time Line
Further Readings
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 Reviews
An engaging supplement for courses on Modern Latin America
Ideal for classes on the African diaspora and on race, culture, and society
Presents an overview of the key topics in the field and a multi-country survey in a concise format
Covers countries such as Honduras, Ecuador, and Mexico, which are rarely included in African Diaspora texts, as well as countries with large contemporary Afro-Latin populations such as Haiti, Cuba, and Brazil
Offers primary sources and Afro-Latin American voices in each section
Emphasizes the burgeoning areas of social and cultural studies while focusing on the roles of Afro-Latin American women and men
Incorporates a case study on Afro-Latin Americans in the United States for comparison
Includes cross-national dialogue and transnational issues within the African diaspora