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  • Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction

    Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies.

  • Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600–2000

    Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants—both free and enslaved—participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that indelibly shaped their countries’ colonial and post-independence pasts. Yet until very recently Afro-Latin Americans were…

  • In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots

    In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots The Washington Post 2005-05-05 Monte Reel BUENOS AIRES — Their disappearance is one of Argentina’s most enduring mysteries. In 1810, black residents accounted for about 30 percent of the population of Buenos Aires. By 1887, however, their numbers had plummeted to 1.8 percent. So where did they…

  • Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil 1888–1988

    For much of the twentieth century Brazil enjoyed an international reputation as a “racial democracy,” but that image has been largely undermined in recent decades by research suggesting the existence of widespread racial inequality.

  • Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay

    Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay University of North Carolina Press October 2010 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 14 illus., 9 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3417-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-7158-4 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh 2011 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American…

  • The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800–1900

    George Reid Andrews has given us a major revision and reconstruction of black history in Argentina since the time of independence, making an exciting and important contribution to both Latin American and Afro-American history. Along the way, he explodes long-held myths, solves a major historical mystery, and documents contributions of blacks to a society that…

  • Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000

    Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 Oxford University Press May 2004 304 pages 15 illus. & 3 maps; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780195152326; ISBN10: 0195152328 Paperback ISBN13: 978-0-19-515233-3; ISBN10: 0-19-515233-6 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Winner of the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies While…

  • Brazilian Racial Democracy, 1900-90: An American Counterpoint

    Brazilian Racial Democracy, 1900-90: An American Counterpoint Journal of Contemporary History Volume 31, Number 3 (July 1996) pages 483-507 DOI: 10.1177/002200949603100303 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Brazil is one of the largest multi-racial societies in the world, and the home of the largest single component of the overseas African diaspora.…

  • Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia. – book reviews

    Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia. – book reviews Journal of Social History Volume 28, Number 2 (Winter 1994) George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Peter Wade, Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 432 pages, Paperback…