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Seditious Spaces
Race, Freedom, and the 1798 Tailors' Conspiracy in Bahia, Brazil
Häftad, 2026
552 kr
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Seditious Spaces tells the story of the Tailor's Conspiracy, an anti-colonial, anti-racist plot in Bahia, Brazil that involved over thirty people of African descent and one dozen whites. On August 12, 1798, the plot was announced to residents through bulletins posted in public spaces across the …
Voices of the Race
Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960
Häftad, 2022
485 kr
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Voices of the Race offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay from 1870 to 1960. Those publications were as important in Black community and intellectual life in Latin America as African American newspapers …
Hierarchies at Home
Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution
Av Anasa Hicks
Häftad, 2024
451 kr
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Hierarchies at Home traces the experiences of Cuban domestic workers from the abolition of slavery through the 1959 revolution. Domestic service - childcare, cleaning, chauffeuring for private homes - was both ubiquitous and ignored as formal labor in Cuba, a phenomenon made possible because of who …
Sovereign Joy
Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640
Häftad, 2023
495 kr
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Sovereign Joy explores the performance of festive black kings and queens among Afro-Mexicans between 1539 and 1640. This fascinating study illustrates how the first African and Afro-creole people in colonial Mexico transformed their ancestral culture into a shared identity among Afro-Mexicans, with …
Second-Class Daughters
Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery
Häftad, 2022
442 kr
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A legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, Brazil is home to the largest number of African descendants outside Africa and the greatest number of domestic workers in the world. Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic research, the author examines the lives of marginalized informal …
Becoming Heritage
Recognition, Exclusion, and the Politics of Black Cultural Heritage in Colombia
Av Maria Fernanda Escallón
Inbunden, 2023
1351 kr
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Since the late twentieth century, multicultural reforms to benefit minorities have swept through Latin America, however, in Colombia ethno-racial inequality remains rife. Becoming Heritage evaluates how heritage policies affected the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque after it was …
Becoming Heritage
Recognition, Exclusion, and the Politics of Black Cultural Heritage in Colombia
Häftad, 2025
438 kr
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Since the late twentieth century, multicultural reforms to benefit minorities have swept through Latin America, however, in Colombia ethno-racial inequality remains rife. Becoming Heritage evaluates how heritage policies affected the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque after it was …
The Boundaries of Freedom
Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil
Av Brodwyn Fischer, Keila Grinberg
Häftad, 2023
620 kr
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The Boundaries of Freedom brings together, for the first time in English, writings on the social and cultural history of Brazilian slavery, emphasizing the centrality of slavery, abolition, and Black subjectivity in the forging of modern Brazil. Nearly five million enslaved Africans were forced to …
Policing Freedom
Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Av Martine Jean
Inbunden, 2023
1640 kr
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Policing Freedom uses the case study of Brazil's first penitentiary, the Casa de Correção, to explore how the Brazilian government used incarceration and enforced labor to control the prison population during the foundational period of Brazilian state formation and postcolonial nation building. …
Policing Freedom
Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Av Martine Jean
Häftad, 2025
526 kr
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Policing Freedom uses the case study of Brazil's first penitentiary, the Casa de Correção, to explore how the Brazilian government used incarceration and enforced labor to control the prison population during the foundational period of Brazilian state formation and postcolonial nation building. …
Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century
Slavery, Freedom, and the Writing of History
Av Nicole von Germeten, Theodore W. Cohen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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As the first book-length examination of abolition and its legacies in Mexico, this collection reveals innovative social, cultural, political, and intellectual approaches to Afro-Mexican history. It complicates the long-standing belief that Afro-Mexicans were erased from the nation. The volume …
Black Activism in the Red Party
Race, Discrimination, and the Cuban Communist Party, 1925-1962
Häftad, 2026
578 kr
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From the 1920s to the 1960s in Cuba, against the backdrop of revolutions, new constitutions, and rampant inequality, the Cuban Communist Party stood out as an unparalleled space for Black political leadership, activism, and advocacy. This party, led by Black political actors, including labor …
Black Activism in the Red Party
Race, Discrimination, and the Cuban Communist Party, 1925-1962
Inbunden, 2026
2063 kr
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From the 1920s to the 1960s in Cuba, against the backdrop of revolutions, new constitutions, and rampant inequality, the Cuban Communist Party stood out as an unparalleled space for Black political leadership, activism, and advocacy. This party, led by Black political actors, including labor …
From Colonial Cuba to Madrid
Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780–1814
Inbunden, 2024
1526 kr
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From Colonial Cuba to Madrid examines the largest and most complex freedom suit litigated in the highest court of the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century. Filed by hundreds of re-enslaved Afro descendant people who had lived in quasi-freedom in eastern Cuba for more than a century, …
From Colonial Cuba to Madrid
Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780–1814
Häftad, 2024
535 kr
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From Colonial Cuba to Madrid examines the largest and most complex freedom suit litigated in the highest court of the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century. Filed by hundreds of re-enslaved Afro descendant people who had lived in quasi-freedom in eastern Cuba for more than a century, …
Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
Inbunden, 2024
1442 kr
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Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were fiercely contested and claimed. It recreates the worlds of extraordinary individuals and communities in the long sixteenth century, whilst mapping the …
Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
Häftad, 2024
468 kr
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Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were fiercely contested and claimed. It recreates the worlds of extraordinary individuals and communities in the long sixteenth century, whilst mapping the …
Black Catholic Worlds
Religious Geographies of Eighteenth-Century Afro-Colombia
Av Bethan Fisk
Inbunden, 2025
1481 kr
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Centring the lived experiences of enslaved and free people of colour, Black Catholic Worlds illustrates how geographies and mobilities - between continents, oceans, and region - were at the heart of the formation and circulation of religious cultures by people of African descent in the face of …
Pain into Purpose
Mobilizing Emotions in Argentina's Black Resistance Movement
Inbunden, 2024
1526 kr
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Pain into Purpose is a groundbreaking exploration of Argentina's Movimiento Negro (Black resistance movement). Employing a multi-year ethnography of Black political organizing, Prisca Gayles delves deep into the challenges activists face in confronting the erasure and denial of Argentina's Black …
Pain into Purpose
Mobilizing Emotions in Argentina's Black Resistance Movement
Häftad, 2025
448 kr
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Pain into Purpose is a groundbreaking exploration of Argentina's Movimiento Negro (Black resistance movement). Employing a multi-year ethnography of Black political organizing, Prisca Gayles delves deep into the challenges activists face in confronting the erasure and denial of Argentina's Black …
Violín
Mediating Musical Style and Devotional Practice in 21st-Century Cuba
Häftad, 2025
448 kr
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Afrodescendant religious music in the Caribbean and Latin America typically foregrounds drumming and centuries-old songs of praise to spirit deities. In recent years, a new form of worship, known as a violín or toque de violín, which features the violin alongside the guitar, electronic piano, …
Violín
Mediating Musical Style and Devotional Practice in 21st-Century Cuba
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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Afrodescendant religious music in the Caribbean and Latin America typically foregrounds drumming and centuries-old songs of praise to spirit deities. In recent years, a new form of worship, known as a violín or toque de violín, which features the violin alongside the guitar, electronic piano, …
My Own Past
Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art
Av Alejandro de la Fuente, Cary Aileen García Yero
Inbunden, 2025
668 kr
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In late eighteenth-century Havana, residents frequently referred to the existence of large communities of negros and pardos as 'officers in the trade of painter' and the authors of 'exquisite works.' But who are these artists, and where can we find their works? What sort of works did they produce? …
Stereotypes in Black
Afro-Argentines and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
Av María de Lourdes Ghidoli
Inbunden, 2026
1861 kr
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Stereotypes in Black is a sharp examination of the representations and self-representations of Afro-descendants in Buenos Aires through the nineteenth century. Originally published in Spanish, this English language translation spotlights various forms of representation, focusing on the …
Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America
Av Peter Wade, Lúcia Sá m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1526 kr
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In this collection, artists and researchers collaborate to explore the anti-racist effects of diverse artistic practices, specifically theatre, dance, visual art and music. By integrating the experiences of Black, Indigenous and mestizo ('mixed-race') artists from Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, …
Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America
Av Peter Wade, Lúcia Sá m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
448 kr
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In this collection, artists and researchers collaborate to explore the anti-racist effects of diverse artistic practices, specifically theatre, dance, visual art and music. By integrating the experiences of Black, Indigenous and mestizo ('mixed-race') artists from Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, …
Racial Doubt
Slavery, Passing, and the Emergence of Black Writing in Cuba
Av Víctor Goldgel Carballo
Inbunden, 2026
1693 kr
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With a focus on nineteenth-century Cuba, Víctor Goldgel Carballo conceptualizes the analytical category of racial doubt: the hesitation produced by divergent, contradictory, or ambiguous understandings of race. Racial doubt is the flip side of racialism, or of the assumption that social hierarchies …
Racial Doubt
Slavery, Passing, and the Emergence of Black Writing in Cuba
Av Víctor Goldgel Carballo
Häftad, 2026
511 kr
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With a focus on nineteenth-century Cuba, Víctor Goldgel Carballo conceptualizes the analytical category of racial doubt: the hesitation produced by divergent, contradictory, or ambiguous understandings of race. Racial doubt is the flip side of racialism, or of the assumption that social hierarchies …
Enslaved New World
Slavery, Freedom, and the Making of Race in Santo Domingo
Häftad, 2026
511 kr
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Enslaved New World illuminates sixteenth-century Santo Domingo as the site of the Americas' earliest plantation and slave society and the first place where slavery became limited to people of African descent. Yet Santo Domingo was also home, Turits shows, to widespread continual flight from bondage …
Enslaved New World
Slavery, Freedom, and the Making of Race in Santo Domingo
Inbunden, 2026
1434 kr
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Enslaved New World illuminates sixteenth-century Santo Domingo as the site of the Americas' earliest plantation and slave society and the first place where slavery became limited to people of African descent. Yet Santo Domingo was also home, Turits shows, to widespread continual flight from bondage …
