Afro Latin American studies : an introduction Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic book length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro Latin American studies. Organized by topic these essays synthesize and present the current state of knowledge on a broad variety of topics including Afro Latin American music religions literature art history political thought social movements legal history environmental history and ideologies of racial inclusion. This volume connects the regions long history of slavery to the major political social cultural and economic developments of the last two centuries. Written by leading scholars in each of those topics the volume provides an introduction to the field of Afro Latin American studies that is not available from any other source and reflects the disciplinary and thematic richness of this emerging field Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic book length survey of the humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro Latin American Studies. Organized by topic these essays synthesize and present the current state of knowledge on a broad variety of topics including Afro Latin American music religions literature art history political thought social movements legal history environmental history and ideologies of racial inclusion. This volume connects the regions long history of slavery to the major political social cultural and economic developments of the last two centuries. Written by leading scholars in each of those topics the volume provides an introduction to the field of Afro Latin American Studies that is not available from any other source and reflects the disciplinary and thematic richness of this emerging field Machine generated contents note: 1. Afro Latin American studies: an introduction Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews; Part I. Inequalities: 2. The slave trade to Latin America: a historiographical assessment Roquinaldo Ferreira and Tatiana Seijas; 3. Inequality: race class gender George Reid Andrews; 4. Afro indigenous interactions relations and comparisons Peter Wade; 5. Law silence and racialized inequalities in the history of Afro Brazil Brodwyn Fischer Keila Grinberg and Hebe Mattos; Part II. Politics: 6. Currents in Afro Latin American political and social thought Frank Guridy and Juliet Hooker; 7. Rethinking black mobilization in Latin America Tianna Paschel; 8. Racial democracy and racial inclusion: hemispheric histories Paulina Alberto and Jesse Hoffnung Garskof; Part III. Culture: 9. Literary liberties: the authority of afrodescendant authors Doris Sommer; 10. Afro Latin American art Alejandro de la Fuente; 11. A century and a half of scholarship on Afro Latin American music Robin Moore; 12. Afro Latin American religions Stephan Palmie and Paul Christopher Johnson; 13. Environment space and place: cultural geographies of colonial Afro Latin America Karl Offen; Part IV. Transnational Spaces: 14. Transnational frames of Afro Latin experience: evolving spaces and means of connection 1600 2000 Lara Putnam; 15. Afro Latinos: speaking through silences and rethinking the geographies of blackness Jennifer A. Jones