1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies
This Handbook provides a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American Studies.
Afro-Latins as a civilization developed during the period of slavery, obtaining cultural contributions from Indigenous and European worlds, while today they are enriched by new social configurations derived from contemporary migrations from Africa. The essays collected in this volume speak to scientific production that has been promoted in the region from the humanities and social sciences with the aim of understanding the phenomenon of the African diaspora as a specific civilizing element. With contributions from world-leading figures in their fields overseen by an eminent international editorial board, this Handbook features original, authoritative articles organized in four coherent parts:
• Disciplinary Studies;
• Problem Focused Fields;
• Regional and Country Approaches;
• Pioneers of Afro-Latin American Studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies will not only serve as the major reference text in the area of Afro-Latin American Studies but will also provide the agenda for future new research.
Preface
Alfonso Múnera Cavadía
Introduction
Bernd Reiter and John Antón Sánchez
Part 1: Disciplinary Studies
1. A Short History of Afro-Latin American Studies, 1890-2020
George Reid Andrews
2. The Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Afro-Latin America: A Brief Illustrative History
Kevin A. Yelvington
3. A Global Overview of Sociological Studies on Afro-Descendants
Rocío Vera Santos
4. Afro-Latin American Linguistics from African Nationalities to American Demonyms
Rafael Perea Chalá Aluma
5. African Diaspora Archaeology in Latin America: Advances and Future Debates
Daniela C. Balanzátegui Moreno
6. Logbook to Describe the Routes of Afro-Latin American Literature
Nevis Balanta Castilla
7. Economic Inequities in Life Opportunities for Afro-Descendants in Latin America: A Literary Review
Carlos Augusto Viáfara López and Oscar Jehiny Larrahondo Ramos
8. "Afro Latin American Legal Studies"
Tanya Katerí Hernández
9. "Afro-Latin American Politics"
Ollie A. Johnson III
10. Afro-Latin American Geography
Ylver Mosquera-Vallejo
11. The Difficult Decolonization of Latin American Psyche
Maria Stella D’Agostini
Part 2: Thematic Fields of Study
12. Studies on Slavery
Marcelo Rosanova Ferraro
13. Studies on Racialized Relations
Peter Wade
14. Studies on Racial Classifications in Latin America
Edward Telles
15. Nations, Castes, Qualities, and Races in Latin American Viceregal Societies: Ambiguities in the Denomination of Afro-Descendant Populations
María Elisa Velázquez Gutiérrez
16. From cordial to structural racism
Flavia Rios and Jaciane Milanezi
17. Studies on The Black Atlantic and Pacific
Sergio Costa and Manuel Góngora-Mera
18. "Afro-descendant Territorialities in Latin America": Assertions, Processes and Dilemmas
Alexander Huezo and Ulrich Oslender
19. The Negritude Movement in Latin America
Carlos Alberto and Valderrama Rentería
20. Human Rights in Afro-Latin America
Kwame Dixon
21. Afrodescendants, Multiculturalism, and the Adoption of Ethnoracial Law in Latin America
Jean Muteba Rahier
22. Studies on Democracy and Afro-Descendant Political Participation in Latin America
Gabriela Iturralde Nieto
23. Black Feminisms in Latin America and the Caribbean. Contributions to the State of the Art
Anny Ocoró Loango and Rosa Campoalegre Septien
24. Patterns of urban racial residential segregation in Latin America: the cases of Brazil and Colombia, Fernando Urrea-Giraldo
Valentina Valoyes Vélez and Luis Gabriel Quiroz Cortés
25. Afro-Latin American Music in Perspective: Studies and Narratives From and Toward the Territory
Fernando Palacios Mateos
26. The Rise of the Afrodiasporic Meta-Genres and the Global Afro-Latinx Music
Noel Allende Goitía
27. African inspired religions in Latin America
Luciana Duccini and Miriam C. M. Rabelo
28. Challenges for Public Policies of Recognition and Inclusion
Palmira N. Ríos González
29. Marronage in the Great Caribbean
Pedro Lebrón Ortiz
30. Black Marxists or Black Marxisms? A Decolonial Gaze
Ramón Grosfoguel
31. Studies on Demographics and social indicadors (CEPAL): Afrodescendants in Latin America and their Sociodemographic Realities
Paula Lezama
32. Post-Abolition Black Migrations: New Approaches to the Movement of Afro-descendants From Colonial Times to the Present
Darien Davis
Part 3: Regional or country study approaches
33. Afro-Brazilian Studies from a Black Perspective
Mário Augusto Medeiros da Silva
34. Perspectives Denied. Afro-Descendant Studies in Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay
María José Becerra and Diego Buffa
35. A historical, socio-political and discourse approach to the emerging field of Afroperuvian Studies
Mariela Noles Cotito and Sharun Gonzalez Matute
36. Afro-Ecuadorian Studies
John Antón
37. Afro-Bolivian Past(s) and Present(s) in Scholarship
Sara Busdiecker
38. Afro Colombian Studies: From the liberal reforms of the 1940s to the COVID19 era in the 2020s
Aurora Vergara Figueroa and Yoseth Ariza-Araújo
39. Afro-Panamanian Studies
Gersán A. Joseph Garzón
40. Overcoming Invisibility. Afro-Descendants in Central America
Carlos Agudelo
41. From Miscegenation Policies to Constitutional Recognition: A State of the Art in Afro-Mexican Studies
María Camila Díaz and María Elisa Velázquez
42. In Defense of Black Life: A Brief Cultural History of Anti-Racist Efforts in Puerto Rico
Hilda Lloréns and Bábara Abadía-Rexach
43. Culture, Race and Nation in Afro-Cuban Studies. Trajectories and Challenges of an Open Field of Study
Milena Annecchiarico
44. Haitian Studies Rising
Mariana Past
45. Afro French Antillian Studies
Jaqueline Allain
46. An Introduction to Afro-Dominican Studies
Diego Ubiera
47. Afro-Venezuelan Studies in Two Times. Four Versions of One Reality
Diógenes Díaz
Part 4: Pioneers or classics of Afro-Latin American Studies
48. Melville Herskovits
Kevin Yelvington
49. Pioneers and Continuing Contributors of Afro-Cuban Studies
Tomás Fernández Robaina
50. Lélia Gonzalez, a intelectual afro-latin american
Flavia Rios
51. José Carlos Luciano Huapaya (1956 – 2002)
Ana Lucia Mosquera
52. Aquiles Escalante Polo: Anthropologist and Educator of Afro-Colombian, Black, Maroon, and Indigenous Plurality
Rubén Hernandez Cassiani
53. Rogerio Velásquez Murillo: Pioneer of Anthropology of Negredumbre
José Antonio Caicedo Ortiz
54. Jacob Gorender and Studies on Slavery in Brazil
Mário Maestri
55. Manuel Zapata Olivella: A Wandering Thinker (1920–2004)
William Mina Aragon
56. Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, Pioneer in the Study of the Black Population in Mexico
Yesenia Olaya
57. Robert Cooper West (1913-2001)
Claudia Leal León
58. Jean Price-Mars: Anti-west Resistance, African Rapprochement as an Approachment to Humanism and Hatianness
Frantzso Marcelin
59. René Depestre
Kaiama L. Glover
60. Abdias Nascimento
Elisa Larkin
61. Gilberto Freyre: Race Relations in Brazil: Gilberto Freyre as Their Interpreter
Roberto Motta
62. Franklin E. Frazier
Livio Sansone
63. Roger Bastide (1898–1974) in Afro-Brazilian Studies
Jocélio Teles dos Santos
64. Raimundo Nina Rodrigues: The Physician and His Informants, the Scientist and the Specialists
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
65. Edison Carneiro, Between the Scientist and the Native
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
66. Manuel Querino
Sabrina Gledhill
67. Juan García ‘Worker of the process’ and Pioneer of Afro-descendant Studies in Ecuador
Rocío Vera Santos
68. Nina S. de Friedemann and the African shadow
Jaime Arocha
69. Luz María Martinez Montiel, a Mexican Africanist, Pioneer in Afro-Mexican Studies
Citlalli Domínguez
70. Ruth Landes and the Interstices of a Research Field: Race and Gender Relations in Getúlio Vargas’s Brazil
Claudia Miranda
71. Racial Prejudice and Stigma of Disease in the Work of Oracy Nogueira
Laura Cavalcanti
72. Virginia Leone Bicudo: A Pioneer in Studies on Race Relations in Brazil
Marcos Chor Maio
73. Angelina Pollak-Eltz
Missael Duarte Somoza
74. Beatriz Nascimento: Intellectual, Activist and Poet
Alex Ratts
Biography
Bernd Reiter is a professor for the department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University. His publications include Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities (2021), Legal Duty and Upper Limits (2020), Constructing the Pluriverse (2018), among others. He served as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Public Policy, Brazil from 2021 to 2022.
John Antón Sánchez is a specialist in Social Development (Universidad del Choco, 2001). He has an MA in Sociology of Culture (Universidad de Colombia, 2005) and a PhD in Social Sciences (Flacso, 2009). He was formerly head of Social Sciences for UNESCO, Andean Region (2020-2011) and dean of Universidad Técnica Luis Vargas Torres de Esmeraldas (2016-2017). He has been a Flacso guest lecturer at the Chair of the African Diaspora in the Americas; he is a former professor of Anthropology at Universidad de San Francisco in Quito. His research topics are elated to the African diaspora in the Americas; race, racism, and inequalities; Afro-descendant social movement; theory of the rights of peoples and nationalities; as well as topics on Afro-descendant anthropology relates to ancestral knowledges, religiosity, and healing practices. He is interested in the history of Sub-Saharan Africa, legal sociology and the archeology of slavery. At the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN), he is head of the Chairs on Fundamental Principles of Public Service, Theory of the State, and Public Policies.
"Wide ranging, ambitious, and exemplary inclusive, this timely volume offers a learned and accessible update to the burgeoning field of Afro-Latin American Studies. The richness of the field is in full display here, in disciplinary, topical, regional, and authorial terms. The result is a singular contribution to collective efforts to center race, racism, and racial stratification in how we study Latin America."
Alejandro de la Fuente, Director of Afro Latin American Research Institute (ALARI), Harvard
"This Handbook is exemplary of how to map a vast field in a single volume. It is the product of a well-crafted project led by two outstanding researchers who conceived a complex cartography of the most salient themes, main historical referents, principal questions, diverse debates, key authors, and plural perspectives in Afro-Latin American Studies. The collection is comprehensive in its breath while maintaining analytical depth. It integrates an impressive variety of research ranging from a genealogy of the field and its elaboration in different disciplines, transversal themes such as: comparative slaveries and maroonage, racial formations and racism, negritude, cultural production (literature, music, religion), social movements (urban and rural), Black feminisms, state racial policies and forms of citizenship, land rights and human rights, and socio-economic conditions of Black peoples through the continent; along with particular histories of Afrodescendents in countries across the whole region; as well as a repertoire of pioneer figures and distinctive dimensions of Afro-Latin American thought. The quality of the chapters and the broad range of coverage makes it the most complete collection of Afro-Latin American Studies available. It should certainly become a fundamental source and necessary reading in the rising field of Afro-Latin American Studies, and as such in the overall transdiscipline of Africana Studies."
Agustin Lao-Montes, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
