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This volume considers how Black activism in Latin America has taken
place in varying arenas such as in the academy, digital platforms,
and traditional forms of activism. Contributors also examine the
impact of activism on policy advocacy and legislation, as well as
groups who the Black Lives Matter movement focus on such as women
and immigrants. The first part of the book focuses on making Black
Lives Matter in academic studies, governmental data, and politics.
The next section focuses on the impact of Black activism on policy
and legislation in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Black activists have
been fighting for Black lives throughout Latin America and their
struggles have not been in vain, although less policy change has
occurred in Peru. The last section finds that social media has
allowed for more independent forms of Black activism in Brazil and
Cuba.
This handbook provides a thorough treatment of the various
mechanisms African Americans have used to participate in U.S.
political affairs from the colonial era to the present. With
contributions by several of the field's experts, this concise,
provocative volume explores the evolution and current status of
African American political action. Focusing on distinct types of
activity (protest politics, grassroots movements, electoral
politics, political office holding), it charts the unique
development of African Americans as they progressed from
enslavement by whites to empowerment as citizens to an ever-growing
influence on elections. As the book vividly demonstrates, African
Americans' efforts to act on their own political behalf didn't
begin in the 1960s. Even while enslaved, black people courageously
launched petitions, instigated strikes on plantations, and staged
full-blown revolts, creating a legacy of activism that expanded
through the abolition movement, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era,
the post-World War II civil rights movement, and into the present.
When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II
service in 1946, he was part of wave of black servicemen who
challenged the racial status quo. He became a pharmacist through
the GI Bill, and as a prominent citizen, he organized a hometown
chapter of the NAACP and relatively quickly became leader of the
state chapter. From that launching pad he joined and helped lead an
ensemble of activists who fundamentally challenged the system of
segregation and the almost total exclusion of African Americans
from the political structure. These efforts were most clearly
evident in his leadership of the integrated Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party delegation, which, after an unsuccessful effort to
unseat the lily-white Democratic delegation at the Democratic
National Convention in 1964, won recognition from the national
party in 1968. The man who the New York Times described as being
"at the forefront of every significant boycott, sit-in, protest
march, rally, voter registration drive and court case" eventually
became a rare example of a social-movement leader who successfully
moved into political office. Aaron Henry of Mississippi covers the
life of this remarkable leader, from his humble beginnings in a
sharecropping family to his election to the Mississippi house of
representatives in 1979, all the while maintaining the
social-change ideology that prompted him to improve his native
state, and thereby the nation.
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