Tag: Nicaragua

  • “Historically, these ideas serve to deny the presence of Indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants. To say that they no longer exist, that they have been absorbed by the process of mestizaje,” says [Juliet] Hooker, who experienced this as a girl when her family moved from the Afro-Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, where she grew up, to its…

  • Oral history interview with Lawrence Dennis, 1967 Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections Columbia Center for Oral History Columbia University, New York, New York Digitized 2010 (Originally recorded in 1967) DOI: 10.7916/d8-cpb1-1692 Lawrence Dennis (1893-1977) interviewed by William R. Keylor (1944-). Listen to the interview here.

  • Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong Harper Perennial (an imprint of Harper Collins) 2021-02-23 304 pages 5x8in Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780063009486 E-book ISBN: 9780063009493 Audiobook ISBN: 9780063009509 Georgina Lawton Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were…

  • Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism Stanford University Press 2016-11-30 248 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780804799560 Paper ISBN: 9781503600546 Jennifer Goett, Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics James Madison College, Michigan State University Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved,…

  • A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans Miami Herald 2007-06-10 through 2007-06-24 In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful civil and cultural rights movement flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garffuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not…

  • Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community University of Texas Press August 1998 320 pages ISBN-10: 0292728190; ISBN-13: 978-0292728196 Edmund Gordon, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin This book is out of print. Based on a decade the author spent among the African-Caribbean “Creole” people on Nicaragua’s southern Caribbean coast, Disparate…

  • To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 Duke University Press 1998 336 pages 11 b&w photographs, 2 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2098-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2084-5 Jeffrey L. Gould, Rudy Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century,…