Comparative perspectives on Afro-Latin America / edited by Kwame Dixon and John Burdick ; foreword by Howard Winant.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Blackness and cultural difference -- Nurturing Bantu Africanness in Bahia / Patricia de Santana Pinho -- Strategies of the Black Pacific: Music and Diasporic Identity in Peru / Heidi Carolyn Feldman -- Malandreo Negro: Gangsta Rap and the Politics of Exclusion in Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes -- Performing the African Diaspora in Mexico / Angela N. Castañeda -- Visions of a Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Images of Blacks in the Work of Víctor Patricio de Landaluze / Elizabeth Morán -- Afro Social Movements and Mobilization -- Afro-Colombian Social Movements / Peter Wade -- Beyond Citizenship as We Know It: Race and Ethnicity in Afro-Colombian Struggles for Citizenship Equality / Bettina Ngweno -- Black Activism in Ecuador, 1979-2009 / Ollie A. Johnson III -- Afro-Ecuadorian Community Organizing and Political Struggle: Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes / Jean Muteba Rahier -- The Black Movement's Foot Soldiers: Black Women and Neighborhood Struggles for Land Rights in Brazil / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry -- State Responses -- Social Movements in Latin America: The Power of Regional and National Networks / Judith A. Morrison -- Negotiating Blackness within the Multicultural State: Creole Politics and Identity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker -- Todos Somos Iguales, Todos Somos Incas: Dilemmas of Afro-Peruvian Citizenship and Inca Whiteness in Peru / Shane Greene -- Sociology and Racial Inequality: Challenges and Approaches in Brazil /Antonio Guimares -- Black -- but Not Haitian: Color, Class, and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic / Ernesto Sagás.

This original collection of essays discusses the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America.

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