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African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States upholds the transcendent interconnectedness of histories, stories, and cultural and disciplinary expression, and the centrality of the Middle Passage in connecting Harlem and Brooklyn to Havana, Kingston, and Rio de Janeiro.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAS PROJECT
Persephone Braham
1. Keith Morrison: Middle Passage
Julie L. McGee
II. SLAVERY, MIGRATION, AND RACIAL IDENTITY
2. The African Diaspora in the Americas: The Caribbean Dimension
Franklin W. Knight
3. Afro-Antillean Presence in the Latin American Melting Pot
Carla Guerrón Montero
4. Puerto Ricans in the Harlem Riot of 1935
Lorrin Thomas
5. Rethinking "Racial Democracy": Perspectives from Black Thinkers in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Paulina L. Alberto
III. AFRICA IN THE ARTS: MIGRATION, IMPROVISATION, EXCHANGE
6. Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean: Early Images of Slavery and Forced Migration in the Americas
Mónica Domínguez-Torres
7. Improvisation in the Danzón and its Ties to Early New Orleans Jazz
Robin Moore
8. Afrochic: Africa in the Modernist Imagination
Camara Dia Holloway
9. True Blood: Colorblindness, Blanqueamiento, and Vampire Ethnicity in Castro's Cuba
Phillip Penix-Tadsen
10. Introspection and Projection in Cuban Art
Colette Gaiter
11. Hearing Reggaeton's African-American Address
Wayne Marshall
12. Black-British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualizing Slavery
Eddie Chambers
IV. BLACK AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE GLOBAL HUMANITIES
13. Race and Representation in the Digital Humanities: An Inter-American Case Study
Ifeoma Nwankwo
14. Black American Studies at the University of Delaware: Education Across the Lines
Carol Henderson
Contributors
About the author
Edited by Persephone Braham - Contributions by Paulina Alberto; Eddie Chambers; Monica Dominguez Torres; Colette Gaiter; Carla Guerron Montero; Carol E. Henderson; Camara Holloway; ; Wayne G. Marshall; Julie L. McGee; Robin D. Moore; Ifeoma Nwankwo; Phill
Summary
African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States upholds the transcendent interconnectedness of histories, stories, and cultural and disciplinary expression, and the centrality of the Middle Passage in connecting Harlem and Brooklyn to Havana, Kingston, and Rio de Janeiro.
