Reighan Gillam is an associate professor in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (2022) and a host of the podcast New Books in Anthropology.

I can think of no other work that takes Gillam’s approach to comparative practices across Latin America and the Caribbean. Centering Black narratives, Diasporic Connections provides a fresh perspective both on the comparative study of race and racism and on scholarly critiques of comparison itself, which typically ignore the practices of comparison engaged “from below.”

• Introduction: (En)countering Racial Exceptionalism1. Encountering Each Other2. Encountering Mixture3. Encountering Black Social Movements4. Encountering AméfricansEpilogueAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyIndex

Reighan Gillam is an associate professor in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (2022) and a host of the podcast New Books in Anthropology.

I can think of no other work that takes Gillam’s approach to comparative practices across Latin America and the Caribbean. Centering Black narratives, Diasporic Connections provides a fresh perspective both on the comparative study of race and racism and on scholarly critiques of comparison itself, which typically ignore the practices of comparison engaged “from below.”

• Introduction: (En)countering Racial Exceptionalism1. Encountering Each Other2. Encountering Mixture3. Encountering Black Social Movements4. Encountering AméfricansEpilogueAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyIndex

Reighan Gillam is an associate professor in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (2022) and a host of the podcast New Books in Anthropology.

I can think of no other work that takes Gillam’s approach to comparative practices across Latin America and the Caribbean. Centering Black narratives, Diasporic Connections provides a fresh perspective both on the comparative study of race and racism and on scholarly critiques of comparison itself, which typically ignore the practices of comparison engaged “from below.”

• Introduction: (En)countering Racial Exceptionalism1. Encountering Each Other2. Encountering Mixture3. Encountering Black Social Movements4. Encountering AméfricansEpilogueAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyIndex