The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (John Hope Franklin Center Book)
A large anthology that traces the history and culture of Afro-Latin people in the United States through essays, memoir, journalism, poetry, and interviews.
Work Information
A hidden community comes into focus through many voices.
The anthology spans history, music, gender, class, and media representation to present a layered account of Afro-Latin experience. Its scope is as much editorial as scholarly.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Duke Univ Pr
- Published
- 2010-06-16
- Pages
- 566 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.88 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780822345725
- ISBN-10
- 0822345722
- Price
- 6764 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/African American Studies
The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans; at the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity, nation, identity, and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews. While the selections cover centuries of Afro-Latin@ history, since the arrival of Spanish-speaking Africans in North America in the mid-sixteenth-century, most of them focus on the past fifty years. The central question of how Afro-Latin@s relate to and experience U.S. and Latin American racial ideologies is engaged throughout, in first-person accounts of growing up Afro-Latin@, a classic essay by a leader of the Young Lords, and analyses of U.S. census data on race and ethnicity, as well as in pieces on gender and sexuality, major-league baseball, and religion. The contributions that Afro-Latin@s have made to U.S. culture are highlighted in essays on the illustrious Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and music and dance genres from salsa to mambo, and from boogaloo to hip hop. Taken together, these and many more selections help to bring Afro-Latin@s in the United States into critical view. Contributors : Afro–Puerto Rican Testimonies Project, Josefina Baéz, Ejima Baker, Luis Barrios, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Adrian Burgos Jr., Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Adrián Castro, Jesús Colón, Marta I. Cruz-Janzen, William A. Darity Jr., Milca Esdaille, Sandra María Esteves, María Teresa Fernández (Mariposa), Carlos Flores, Juan Flores, Jack D. Forbes, David F. Garcia, Ruth Glasser, Virginia Meecham Gould, Susan D. Greenbaum, Evelio Grillo, Pablo “Yoruba” Guzmán, Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Tanya K. Hernández, Victor Hernández Cruz, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Lisa Hoppenjans, Vielka Cecilia Hoy, Alan J. Hughes, María Rosario Jackson, James Jennings, Miriam Jiménez Román, Angela Jorge, David Lamb, Aida Lambert, Ana M. Lara, Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, Tato Laviera, John Logan, Antonio López, Felipe Luciano, Louis Pancho McFarland, Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Wayne Marshall, Marianela Medrano, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Yvette Modestin, Ed Morales, Jairo Moreno, Marta Moreno Vega, Willie Perdomo, Graciela Pérez Gutiérrez, Sofia Quintero, Ted Richardson, Louis Reyes Rivera, Pedro R. Rivera , Raquel Z. Rivera, Yeidy Rivero, Mark Q. Sawyer, Piri Thomas, Silvio Torres-Saillant, Nilaja Sun, Sherezada “Chiqui” Vicioso, Peter H. Wood
Miriam Jiménez Román is a visiting scholar in the Africana Studies Program at New York University and Executive Director of afrolatin@ forum, a research and resource center focusing on Black Latin@s in the United States. Juan Flores is Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His most recent works include The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning , From Bomba To Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity , and the English translation of Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s book Cortijo’s Wake , also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
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Súper úr
Excelente perspectiva a través de diversos artículos. Sirve súper bien para cursos introductorios.
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A+ 'collard greens' praise for this reader!!!
Just when I asked about such a reader for the classroom without the veil of annals foretold, the cracks in the earth speak in order to moisten the lips of enthusiasts/teachers/college professors the twenty-first century who seek to fracture the canon of 'latinidad' as such in the context of Afrikan people (Latinos and Latinas) of the Americas living in the United States. In agreement with the editors, this text is one of 'una conciencia triple'. The reader is contextualized as such; however, the writerly-text mode is a testimony of today's realities and modalities thereof that cross boundaries for class, race, gender and sexualities. Dr. Murrell (Carlos)
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This is a great resource for learning about experiences of Afro-Latinos in the U.S.
Great vignettes for the college course I teach! They are vivid and revealing. Side note-It's unfortunate that literature on black Latinos is minimally included in mainstream textbooks. Duke. Press seems like the only publishing company that offers a variety of texts that value these communities and offer informative socio-historical contextual background data along with the literature.
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Very informative and interesting
I've read most of the contents thus far and I find the book very informative and interesting. Great resource for everyone interested in learning about Afro-Latin@s and also about US history.
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Five Stars
Amazing. We need these readings in our libraries!
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