Afro-descendants, identity, and the struggle for development in the Americas
By: edited by Bernd Reiter and Kimberly Eison Simmons
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781611860405
Subjects: Race relations; Race identity; Blacks; Racially mixed people; Social integration; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Building black diaspora networks and meshworks for knowledge, justice, peace, and human rights / Faye V. Harrison; title: Pan-Afro-Latin African Americanism revisited : legacies and lessons for transnational alliances in the new millennium / Darién J. Davis, Tianna S. Paschel, and Judith A. Morrison; title: Haitians in the Dominican Republic : race, politics, and neoliberalism / Lauren Derby; title: Navigating the racial terrain : blackness and mixedness in the United States and the Dominican Republic / Kimberly Eison Simmons; title: Negotiating blackness within the multicultural state in Latin America : creole politics and identity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker; title: Ethnic identity and political mobilization : the Afro-Colombian case / Leonardo Reales; title: The grammar of color identity in Brazil / Seth Racusen; title: Afro-Colombian welfare : an application of Amartya Sen's capability approach using multiple indicators multiple causes modeling (MIMIC) / Paula A. Lezama; title: Racism in a racialized democracy and support for affirmative action policy in Salvador and São Paulo, Brazil / Gladys Mitchell-Walthour; title: Afro-descendant peoples and public policies : the network of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women / Altagracia Balcácer Molina and Dorotea Wilson; title: Decolonizing the imaging of African-derived religions / Amanda D. Concha-Holmes; title: Neoliberal dilemmas : diaspora, displacement, and development in Buenos Aires / Judith M. Anderson; title: Pluralizing race / Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper.