Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies

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

• Preface Introduction Part 1: Disciplinary Studies 1. A Short History of Afro-Latin American Studies, 1890-2020 2. The Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Afro-Latin America: A Brief Illustrative History 3. A Global Overview of Sociological Studies on Afro-Descendants 4. Afro-Latin American Linguistics from African Nationalities to American Demonyms 5. African Diaspora Archaeology in Latin America: Advances and Future Debates 6. Logbook to Describe the Routes of Afro-Latin American Literature 7. Inequities in Life Opportunities for Afro-Descendants in Latin America: A Literary Review 8. "Afro Latin American Legal Studies" 9. "Afro-Latin American Politics" 10. Afro-Latin American Geography 11. The Difficult Decolonization of Latin American Psyche Part 2: Thematic Fields of Study 12. Studies on Slavery 13. Studies on Racialized Relations 14. Studies on Racial Classifications in Latin America 15. Nations, Castes, Qualities, and Races in Latin American Viceregal Societies: Ambiguities in the Denomination of Afro-Descendant Populations 16. From cordial to structural racism 17. Studies on The Black Atlantic and Pacific 18. "Afro-descendant Territorialities in Latin America": Assertions, Processes and Dilemmas 19. The Negritude Movement in Latin America 20. Human Rights in Afro-Latin America 21. Afrodescendants, Multiculturalism, and the Adoption of Ethnoracial Law in Latin America 22. Studies on Democracy and Afro-Descendant Political Participation in Latin America 23. Black Feminisms in Latin America and the Caribbean: Contributions to the State of the Art 24. Patterns of urban racial residential segregation in Latin America: the cases of Brazil and Colombia 25. Afro-Latin American Music in Perspective: Studies and Narratives From and Toward the Territory 26. The Rise of the Afrodiasporic Meta-Genres and the Global Afro-Latinx 27. African inspired religions in Latin America 28. Challenges and Opportunities for Public Policies of Recognition and Inclusion 29. Marronage in the Great Caribbean 30. Black Marxists or Black Marxisms? A Decolonial Gaze 31. Studies on Demographics and Social Indicadors: Afrodescendants in Latin America and their Sociodemographic Realities 32. Post-Abolition Black Migrations: New Approaches to the Movement of Afro-descendants From Colonial Times to the Present Part 3: Regional or country study approaches 33. Afro-Brazilian Studies from a Black Perspective 34. Perspectives Denied: Afro-Descendant Studies in Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay 35. A historical, socio-political and discourse approach to the emerging field of Afroperuvian Studies 36. Afro-Ecuadorian Studies 37. Afro-Bolivian Past(s) and Present(s) in Scholarship 38. Afro Colombian Studies: From the liberal reforms of the 1940s to the COVID19 era in the 2020s 39. Afro-Panamanian Studies 40. Overcoming Invisibility: Afro-Descendants in Central America 41. From Miscegenation Policies to Constitutional Recognition: A State of the Art in Afro-Mexican Studies 42. In Defense of Black Life: A Brief Cultural History of Anti-Racist Efforts in Puerto Rico 43. Culture, Race and Nation in Afro-Cuban Studies: Trajectories and Challenges of an Open Field of Study 44. Haitian Studies Rising 45. Afro French Antillian Studies 46. An Introduction to Afro Dominican Studies 47. Afro-Venezuelan Studies in Two Times. Four Versions of One Reality Part 4: Pioneers or classics of Afro-Latin American Studies 48. Melville Herskovits 49. Pioneers and Continuing Contributors of Afro-Cuban Studies 50. Lélia Gonzalez, a intelectual afro-latin american 51. José Carlos Luciano Huapaya (1956 – 2002) 52. Aquiles Escalante Polo: Anthropologist and Educator of Afro-Colombian, Black, Maroon, and Indigenous Plurality 53. Rogerio Velásquez Murillo: Pioneer of Anthropology of Negredumbre 54. Jacob Gorender and Studies on Slavery in Brazil 55. Manuel Zapata Olivella: A Wandering Thinker (1920–2004) 56. Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, Pioneer in the Study of the Black Population in Mexico 57. Robert Cooper West (1913-2001) 58. Jean Price-Mars: Anti-west Resistance, African Rapprochement as an Approachment to Humanism and Hatianness 59. René Depestre 60. Abdias Nascimento 61. Gilberto Freyre: Race Relations in Brazil: Gilberto Freyre as Their Interpreter 62. Franklin E. Frazier 63. Roger Bastide (1898–1974) in Afro-Brazilian Studies 64. Raimundo Nina Rodrigues: The Physician and His Informants, the Scientist and the Specialists 65. Edison Carneiro, Between the Scientist and the Native 66. Manuel Querino 67. Juan García ‘Worker of the process’ and pioneer of Afro-descendant Studies in Ecuador 68. Nina S. de Friedemann and the African shadow 69. Luz María Martinez Montiel, a Mexican Africanist, Pioneer in Afro-Mexican Studies 70. Ruth Landes and the Interstices of a Research Field: Race and Gender Relations in Getúlio Vargas’s Brazil 71. Racial Prejudice and Stigma of Disease in the Work of Oracy Nogueira 72. Virginia Leone Bicudo: A Pioneer in Studies on Race Relations in Brazil 73. Angelina Pollak-Eltz 74. Beatriz Nascimento: Intellectual, Activist and Poet