Afro-Latin American Studies

Alejandro de la Fuente is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute and the co-chair of the Cuban Studies Program at Harvard. He is the author of Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present (forthcoming), Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (2011), and of A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (2001). He is the editor of the journal Cuban Studies and of Transition: Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora. George Reid Andrews is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin 1978 and has taught Latin American history at the University of Pittsburgh since 1981. His books include The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900 (1981), Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988 (1992), Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 (2004), Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay (2010), and Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000 (2016).

• 1. Afro-Latin American studies: an introduction Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews; Part I. Inequalities: 2. The slave trade to Latin America: a historiographical assessment Roquinaldo Ferreira and Tatiana Seijas; 3. Inequality: race, class, gender George Reid Andrews; 4. Afro-indigenous interactions, relations, and comparisons Peter Wade; 5. Law, silence, and racialized inequalities in the history of Afro-Brazil Brodwyn Fischer, Keila Grinberg and Hebe Mattos; Part II. Politics: 6. Currents in Afro-Latin American political and social thought Frank Guridy and Juliet Hooker; 7. Rethinking black mobilization in Latin America Tianna Paschel; 8. 'Racial democracy' and racial inclusion: hemispheric histories Paulina Alberto and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof; Part III. Culture: 9. Literary liberties: the authority of Afrodescendant authors Doris Sommer; 10. Afro-Latin American art Alejandro de la Fuente; 11. A century and a half of scholarship on Afro-Latin American music Robin Moore; 12. Afro-Latin American religions Stephan Palmié and Paul Christopher Johnson; 13. Environment, space and place: cultural geographies of colonial Afro-Latin America Karl Offen; Part IV. Transnational Spaces: 14. Transnational frames of Afro-Latin experience: evolving spaces and means of connection, 1600–2000 Lara Putnam; 15. Afro-Latinos: speaking through silences and rethinking the geographies of blackness Jennifer A. Jones.

'This collection marks the coming of age of the new multi-disciplinary field of Afro-Latin American Studies, a field centered on the histories and cultures of people of African descent throughout the Caribbean and South and Central America. We sometimes forget that almost two-thirds of all of the enslaved Africans arriving in the Americas went to the former colonies of Spain and Portugal, where they shaped local cultures in lasting and meaningful ways. With penetrating contributions from leading scholars of slavery and race in the Americas, this volume is a delight to read and charts new agendas for future research in this exciting field.' Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Harvard University, Massachusetts