Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: Social Dynamics and Cultural Transformations 
Subtitle: Central America and Northern and Western South America (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Contributors: Norman E. Whitten (Editor); Arlene Torres (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: October 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780253334046
Subjects: Black studies; Ethnic Sociology; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; Caribbean islands; Discrimination & Racism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Minority Studies - General; Ethnic Studies - General; Blacks; Caribbean Area; History; Latin America; Race identity; Race relations
First sentence: A Brazilian returning from fourteen years in exile made this remark about his country's contemporary politics: "[F]oreign political scientist don't understand us because we don't appear to play politics by any established rules....For example, in the strictest terms we shouldn't be gathered at this meeting of the opposition but that's exactly where we are ... and this is a strange land where our liberty hangs by a precarious thread ... and where authoritarianism and democracy seem to exist side by side.