"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
Baez, Ejima Baker, Luis Barrios, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Adrian
Burgos Jr., Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Adrian Castro, Jesus Colon,
Marta I. Cruz-Janzen, William A. Darity Jr., Milca Esdaille, Sandra
Maria Esteves, Maria Teresa Fernandez (Mariposa), Carlos Flores,
Juan Flores, Jack D. Forbes, David F. Garcia, Ruth Glasser,
Virginia Meecham Gould, Susan D. Greenbaum, Evelio Grillo, Pablo
"Yoruba" Guzman, Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Tanya K. Hernandez, Victor
Hernandez Cruz, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Lisa Hoppenjans, Vielka
Cecilia Hoy, Alan J. Hughes, Maria Rosario Jackson, James Jennings,
Miriam Jimenez Roman, Angela Jorge, David Lamb, Aida Lambert, Ana
M. Lara, Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, Tato Laviera, John Logan,
Antonio Lopez, 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 Perez Gutierrez, 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
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