Afro Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the - America

Informationen zum Autor Bernd Reiter is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of South Florida and has worked as a social worker and NGO consultant in Colombia and Brazil. 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. Klappentext 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bernd (EDT)/ Eison Simmons Reiter, Bernd Simmons Reiter
• Assisted by: Kimberly Eison Simmons (Editor), Bernd Reiter (Editor)
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2012
• EAN: 9781611860405
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-040-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: African Diaspora Research Proj; Ruth SIMMs Hamilton African Di
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous