Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000

by George Reid Andrews

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 conspicuously excluded from narratives of their hemisphere's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737598
• ISBN13: 9780674737594
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"