Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611860407 ISBN 13 : 9781611860405

Editeur : Michigan State University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being 'racial paradises' populated by an amalgamated 'cosmic race' of mulattos and mestizos, Latin America and the Caribbean have long been sites of shifting exploitative strategies and ideologies, ranging from scientific racism and eugenics to the more sophisticated official denial of racism and ethnic difference. This book, among the first to focus on African descendants in the region, brings together diverse reflections from scholars, activists, and funding agency representatives working to end racism and promote human rights in the Americas. By focusing on the ways racism inhibits agency among African descendants and the ways African-descendant groups position themselves in order to overcome obstacles, this interdisciplinary book provides a multi-faceted analysis of one of the gravest contemporary problems in the Americas.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

BERND REITER is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of South Florida's School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies. He is author of The Dialectics of Citizenship and The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the Path Ahead and coeditor of Bridging Scholarship and Activism and Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for development in the Americas.

Kimberly Eison Simmons is Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies, Director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina, and past president of the Association of Black Anthropologists.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michigan State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611860407
• ISBN 13: 9781611860405
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Éditeur: Reiter Bernd, Eison Simmons Kimberly
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible