Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies

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