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"This book introduces English-language readers to the historical (1870-1960) Black newspapers and magazines of Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay. In Latin America, the violence of enslavement, limited access to primary education and the world of publishing, and exclusion from regional archives and libraries make documents and texts produced by Afrodescendants themselves extremely rare. The majority of the abundant documentary evidence of the participation of Africans and their descendants in the region's history was created by state and Church officials and institutions, lawyers, policemen, foreign visitors to the region, journalists, scientists, and others, most of whom were not themselves of African descent. Yet in their own periodical publications, Afro-Latin Americans eloquently expressed their thoughts on a host of social and political issues: slavery, race and racism, democracy, civic and social equality, gender, African-based culture, economic development, literature and the arts, parenting,"--
List of contents
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Politics and citizenship; 2. Racism and anti-racism; 3. Family, education, and uplift; 4. Community life; 5. Women; 6. Africa and African culture; 7. Diaspora and Black internationalism; 8. Arts and literature; Appendix: Black periodicals in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay, 1856-1960; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Paulina L. Alberto is Professor of History, Spanish, and Portuguese at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina.George Reid Andrews is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He co-edits, with Alejandro de la Fuente, the Afro-Latin America book series at Cambridge University Press. He is the author of Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000.Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is Professor of History and American Culture and Director of the Immigrant Justice Lab at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean.
Summary
This book offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay. Essential reading for students of Afro-Latin American History and Studies, the book introduces English-language readers to a rich body of Black cultural and intellectual production.
