Voices of the Race

Paulina L. Alberto is Professor of History, Spanish, and Portuguese at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina. George Reid Andrews is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He co-edits, with Alejandro de la Fuente, the Afro-Latin America book series at Cambridge University Press. He is the author of Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is Professor of History and American Culture and Director of the Immigrant Justice Lab at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean.

• List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Politics and citizenship; 2. Racism and anti-racism; 3. Family, education, and uplift; 4. Community life; 5. Women; 6. Africa and African culture; 7. Diaspora and Black internationalism; 8. Arts and literature; Appendix: Black periodicals in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay, 1856–1960; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

'The editors have mined scattered and precarious archives to bring together the voices of influential Black Latin American commentators as they grappled with questions of identity, community, and belonging in their own nations and with other communities of the African diaspora. To have these rare documents in conversation with each other is remarkable; to have them in translation, contextualized with thematic introductions, is priceless.' Kim D. Butler, author of Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paulo and Salvador