The Afro-Latin@ reader : history and culture in the United States
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Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
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9780822345589, 0822345587, 9780822345725, 0822345722
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Published
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
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Book
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xiv, 566 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780822345589, 0822345587, 9780822345725, 0822345722

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"A John Hope Franklin Center Book"--Page i.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans; at the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity, nation, identity, and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews. While the selections cover centuries of Afro-Latin@ history, since the arrival of Spanish-speaking Africans in North America in the mid-sixteenth-century, most of them focus on the past fifty years. The central question of how Afro-Latin@s relate to and experience U.S. and Latin American racial ideologies is engaged throughout, in first-person accounts of growing up Afro-Latin@, a classic essay by a leader of the Young Lords, and analyses of U.S. census data on race and ethnicity, as well as in pieces on gender and sexuality, major-league baseball, and religion. The contributions that Afro-Latin@s have made to U.S. culture are highlighted in essays on the illustrious Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and music and dance genres from salsa to mambo, and from boogaloo to hip hop. Taken together, these and many more selections help to bring Afro-Latin@s in the United States into critical view."--Publisher's description.
Awards
American Book Award, 2012

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Jiménez Román, M., & Flores, J. (2010). The Afro-Latin@ reader: history and culture in the United States . Duke University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jiménez Román, Miriam, 1951- and Juan Flores. 2010. The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. Duke University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jiménez Román, Miriam, 1951- and Juan Flores. The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States Duke University Press, 2010.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Jiménez Román, Miriam, and Juan Flores. The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States Duke University Press, 2010.

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