Black in Latin America
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Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books
for Public and Secondary School Libraries 12.5 million Africans
were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just
over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000
of them arrived in the United States. The rest--over ten and a half
million--were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This
astonishing fact changes our entire picture of the history of
slavery in the Western hemisphere, and of its lasting cultural
impact. These millions of Africans created new and vibrant
cultures, magnificently compelling syntheses of various African,
English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish influences. Despite their
great numbers, the cultural and social worlds that they created
remain largely unknown to most Americans, except for certain
popular, cross-over musical forms. So Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set
out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent
live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge--or
deny--their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry
play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean
and Latin America. Starting with the slave experience and extending
to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence
in six Latin American countries--Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican
Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru--through art, music, cuisine,
dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence
of anti-black racism that has sometimes sought to keep the black
cultural presence from view. In Brazil, he delves behind the facade
of Carnaval to discover how this 'rainbow nation' is waking up to
its legacy as the world's largest slave economy. In Cuba, he finds
out how the culture, religion, politics and music of this island is
inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to
produce its enormously profitable 19th century sugar industry, and
how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro's Communist
revolution in 1959. In Haiti, he tells the story of the birth of
the first-ever black republic, and finds out how the slaves's hard
fought liberation over Napoleon Bonaparte's French Empire became a
double-edged sword. In Mexico and Peru, he explores the almost
unknown history of the significant numbers of black people--far
greater than the number brought to the United States--brought to
these countries as early as the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, and the worlds of culture that their descendants have
created in Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico, the Costa Chica region
on the Pacific, and in and around Lima, Peru. Professor Gates'
journey becomes ours as we are introduced to the faces and voices
of the descendants of the Africans who created these worlds. He
shows both the similarities and distinctions between these
cultures, and how the New World manifestations are rooted in, but
distinct from, their African antecedents. Black in Latin America is
the third instalment of Gates's documentary trilogy on the Black
Experience in Africa, the United States, and in Latin America. In
America Behind the Color Line, Professor Gates examined the
fortunes of the black population of modern-day America. In Wonders
of the African World, he embarked upon a series of journeys to
reveal the history of African culture. Now, he brings that quest
full-circle in an effort to discover how Africa and Europe combined
to create the vibrant cultures of Latin America, with a rich legacy
of thoughtful, articulate subjects whose stories are astonishingly
moving and irresistibly compelling.
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