{"id":18967,"date":"2012-03-31T03:34:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T03:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18967"},"modified":"2015-10-28T02:20:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T02:20:14","slug":"afro-descendants-identity-and-the-struggle-for-development-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18967","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/msupress.org\/books\/book\/?id=50-1D0-23B8\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msupress.msu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan State University Press<\/a><br \/>\nApril 2012<br \/>\n344 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9, notes, references<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-61186-040-5<\/p>\n<p>Edited by:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gia.usf.edu\/faculty\/reiter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bernd Reiter<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics<br \/>\n<em>University of South Florida<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/artsandsciences.sc.edu\/anth\/kimberly-simmons\" target=\"_blank\">Kimberly Eison Simmons<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies; Director of the Latin American Studies Program<br \/>\n<em>University of South Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msupress.org\/books\/book\/?id=50-1D0-23B8\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kora.matrix.msu.edu\/files\/80\/464\/50-1D0-23B8-50-9781611860405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A detailed analysis of issues facing African descendants in Latin America<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being \u201cracial paradises\u201d populated by an amalgamated \u201ccosmic race\u201d of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulattos<\/a> and mestizos, Latin America and the Caribbean have long been sites of shifting exploitative strategies and ideologies, ranging from scientific racism and <a href=\"eugenics \" target=\"_blank\">eugenics<\/a> to the more sophisticated official denial of racism and ethnic difference<strong>.<\/strong> This book, among the first to focus on African descendants in the region, brings together diverse reflections from scholars, activists, and funding agency representatives working to end racism and promote human rights in the Americas. By focusing on the ways racism inhibits agency among African descendants and the ways African-descendant groups position themselves in order to overcome obstacles, this interdisciplinary book provides a multi- faceted analysis of one of the gravest contemporary problems in the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas Michigan State University Press April 2012 344 pages 6 x 9, notes, references ISBN: 978-1-61186-040-5 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics University of South Florida Kimberly Eison Simmons, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies; Director of the Latin American Studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1649,11,21,8,26,394],"tags":[8701,5797,5796,5798,1785],"class_list":["post-18967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-anthropology","category-books","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-bernd-reiter","tag-kimberly-e-simmons","tag-kimberly-eison-simmons","tag-kimberly-simmons","tag-michigan-state-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43556,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18967\/revisions\/43556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}