Introduction: African (Black) Diaspora history, Latin American history

Americas

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-18

  Vinson III, Ben ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 55749114828     PISSN: 00031615     EISSN: 15336247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tam.2006.0139     Document Type: Editorial

References (78)

1. See Isidore Okpewho, introduction to African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities, ed. Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), p. xxii
2. and Brent Hayes Edwards, "The Uses of Diaspora," Social Text 19:1 (2001), p. 62
3. Some interesting articles on the relationship between black history and the African Diaspora include Patrick Manning, "Africa and the African Diaspora: New Directions of Study," Journal of African History 44:3 (2003), pp. 487-506
4. Tiffany Ruby Patterson and Robin D. G Kelley, "Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and the Making of the Modern World," African Studies Review 43:1 (2000), pp. 11-45
5. and Darlene Clark Hine and Jacqueline McLeod eds., Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999)
6. Edwards, "Uses of Diaspora," p. 45-73
7. George Shepperson, "Pan-Africanism and 'pan-Africanism': Some Historical Notes," Phylon 23:4 (1962), pp. 346-58
8. Kim D. Butler, Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition Säo Paulo and Salvador (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998)
9. María Elena Díaz, The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000)
10. Aline Helg, Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
11. Alejandro de la Fuente, A Nation For All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
12. Matthew Restall, ed., Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005)
13. James H. Sweet, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
14. Robinson A. Herrera, Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003)
15. George Reid Andrews, Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
16. Toyin Falola and Matt D. Childs, eds., The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2004)
17. Daniel E. Walker, No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004)
18. Berta Ares Queija and Alessandro Stella, eds., Negros, mulatos, zambaigos: derroteros africanos en los mundos ibéricos (Seville: EEHA/CSIC, 2000)
19. Rina Cáceres, Negros, mulatos, esclavos y libertos en la Costa Rica del siglo XVII (Mexico City: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, 2000)
20. María Eugenia Chaves, María Chiquinquirá Díaz: Una esclava del siglo XVIII: acerca de las identidades de amo y esclavo en el puerto colonial de Guayaquil (Guayaquil: Archivo Histórico del Guayas, 1998)
21. and Carlos Aguirre, Agentes de su propia libertad: Los esclavos de Lima y la desintegración de la esclavitud: 1821-1854 (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial, 1993)
22. Marcel Velázquez Castro, Las mascaras de la representación: El sujeto esclavista y las rutas del racismo en el Perú (Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos y Banco Central de Réserva del Perú, 2005)
23. Even in places like the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Venezuela, and Cuba, the discussion of blacks in national discourses of mestizaje/mulataje have been difficult and complex, but important literature has been rectifying the situation. See De la Fuente, A Nation for All
24. David Howard, Coloring the Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 2001)
25. Robin E. Sheriff, Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2001)
26. Winthrop R. Wright, Café con Leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990)
27. and Ernesto Sagás, Race and Politics in the Dominican Republic (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2001)
28. For Colombia see Peter Wade, Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Race Mixture in Colombia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993)
29. Khalid Koser, "New African Diasporas, an Introduction," in New African Diasporas, ed. Khalid Koser (London: Routledge, 2003), p. 5
30. Manthia Diawara, "Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Performative Acts," Afterimage 20:3 (1992), p. 476
31. See also Maurice Stevens, Troubling Beginnings: Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity (New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 16-23
32. Zeleza, "Rewriting the African Diaspora," pp. 35-68
33. Hooker, "Indigenous Inclusion/Black Exclusion." In Brazil, the impact of North American discourses upon Afro-Brazilian identity politics has also been a topic of international debate
34. A quick entry into the debate can be obtained by reading John D. French, "Translation, Diasporic Dialogue, and the Errors of Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant," Nepantla: Views from South 4:2 (2003), pp. 375-89
35. Michael George Hanchard, "Racism, Eroticism, and the Paradoxes of a U.S. Black Researcher in Brazil," in Racing Research, Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies, ed. France Widdance Twine and Jonathan W. Warren (New York: New York University Press, 2000)
36. and Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant, "On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason," Theory, Culture, and Society 16:1 (1999): pp. 41-58
37. Michael A. Gomez, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 2
38. Kim D. Butler, "Defining Diaspora, Refining a Discourse," Diaspora 10:2 (2001), pp. 189-219
39. Colin A. Palmer, "Defining and Studying the Modern African Diaspora," American Historical Association Perspectives 36:6 (1998), pp. 1, 22-25
40. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (New York: Bartleby.com, 1999), p. 3
41. See also Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (New York: Grove Press, 1982)
42. and Gilroy, Black Atlantic
43. For a few examples, see Herrera, Natives, Europeans, and Africans
44. Cäceres, Negros, mulatos, esclavos
45. Kris Lane, Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002)
46. Chaves, María Chiquinquirá Díaz
47. Lolita Gutíerrez Brockington, "The African Diaspora in the Eastern Andes: Adaption, Agency, and Fugitive Action, 1573-1677," The Americas (TAM) 57:2 (2000), pp. 207-24
48. Paul Lokken, "Marriage as Slave Emancipation in Seventeenth-Century Rural Guatemala," TAM, 58:2 (2001), pp. 175-200
49. Kent Russell Lohse, "Africans and their Descendants in Colonial Costa Rica, 1600-1750," (PhD. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 2005)
50. and Sherwin K. Bryant, "Enslaved Rebels, Fugitives, and Litigants: The Resistance Continuum in Colonial Quito," Colonial Latin American Review 13:1 (2004), pp. 7-46
51. Laura Muñoz Mata, "De la raza de color: esclavos para Yucatán," in Pardos, mulatos y libertos. Sexto encuentro de afromexicanistas, ed. Adriana Naveda Chavez-Hita (Jalapa, Veracruz: Universidad Veracruzana, 2001), pp. 217-30
52. and Frederick Douglas Opie, "Foreign Workers, Debt Peonage, and Frontier Culture in Lowland Guatemala, 1884-1900," Transforming Anthropology 12:1/2 (2004), pp. 40-50
53. Work on African-American influences in Mexico includes Gerald Home, Black and Brown: African-Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (New York: New York University Press, 2004)
54. Ben Vinson III, Flight: The Story of Virgil Richardson, a Tuskegee Airman in Mexico (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2004)
55. and Rosalie Schwartz, Across the Rio to Freedom: U.S. Negroes in Mexico (El Paso: University of Texas at El Paso Press, 1974)
56. Work on interactions between Afro-Cubans and African-Americans can be found in Frank A. Guridy, "From Solidarity to Cross-Fertilization: Afro-Cuban/African American Interaction During the 1930s and 1940s," Radical History Review, 87 (2003), pp. 19-48
57. Gilberto Freyre, Casa grande y senzala (Rio de Janeiro: José Olimpo, 1933)
58. Fernando Ortiz, Hampa afrocubana, Los negros brujos (apuntes para un estudio de etnología criminal) (Madrid: Editorial America, 1917)
59. For a contextualization of Gil Fortul's theories, see Wright, Café con Leche. Note that other thinkers could have been included here as well. My decision to include Alfonso Toro (instead of José Vasconcelos) for Mexico stems from the fact that upon close reading, Vasconcelos was not as preoccupied with the black presence in mestizaje as were other contemporary Mexican thinkers, such as Toro
60. Frank Tannenbaum, Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas (New York: Vintage Books, 1946)
61. Miguel Acosta Saignes, Vida de los esclavos negros en Venezuela (Caracas: Hespérides, 1967)
62. and Miguel Barnet, Biografía de un cimarrón (Havana: Instituto de Ethnología y Folklore, 1966)
63. Melville Jean Herskovits, The Myth of the Negro Past (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1941)
64. Frederick P. Bowser, "The African in Colonial Spanish America: Reflections on Research Achievements and Priorities," Latin American Research Review (LARR) 7:1 (1972), pp. 77-94
65. Restall, Black and Red offers a good model for these interactions
66. Gwendolyn Mildo Hall, Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005)
67. Sweet, Recreating Africa
68. Gomez, Exchanging our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998)
69. Kristin Mann, "Shifting Paradigms in the Study of the African Diaspora and of Atlantic History and Culture," Slavery & Abolition 22:1 (2001), pp. 3-20
70. Bennett, Africans in Colonial Mexico
71. Bryant, "Slavery and the Context of Ethnogenesis: Africans, Afro-Creoles, and the Realities of Bondage in the Kingdom of Quito, 1600-1800" (Ph.D. diss., The Ohio State University, 2005)
72. and Mieko Nishida, Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003)
73. see Thomas Fiehrer, "Political Violence in the Periphery: The Haitian Massacre of 1937," Race and Class 32:2 (1990), pp. 1-20
74. Bowser, The African Slave in Colonial Peru, 1524-1650 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974)
75. Christine Hünefeldt, Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor Among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994)
76. Peter Blanchard, Slavery and Abolition in Early Republican Peru (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1992)
77. Aguirre, Agentes de su propia libertad
78. and Camilla Townsend, "Half My Body Free, the Other Half Enslaved: The Politics of the Slaves of Guayaquil at the End of the Colonial Era," Colonial Latin American Review 7:1 (1998), pp. 105-12