The Black Americas: 1492-1992

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RESISTANCE WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF Caribbean slave society. Slaves resisted in myriad ways-from the subtle and passive, acted out

Six thousand meters up Mt. Acon- cagua in southern Argentina a graffito proclaims: "losjuden son cerdos" (yids are pigs). The

STATISTICS ON THE BLACK POPULATION IN MOST countries of the America are by no mean based on uniform criteria. The

Supporters hail the Southern Cone Common Market as a major step to- ward the fulfillment of the age-old dream of

THE AFRICANDIASPORA DID NOT, AS SO MANY suppose, originate in the New World; it began in North Africa, the Creum-Mediterranean,

Like anyone who makes a living from the sea, Arnoldo Raimilla is no stranger to outside forces. On Chilod island

A HUNDRED BLACK LEADERS AND PEASANTS from Colombia's Pacific Coast and northern Cauca Valley gathered in the southwestern city of

BETWEEN 1518 AND 1873, IN THE LARGEST CO- erced migration in history, the international trade in human beings carried nearly

Cafe Con Leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela by Winthrop R. Wright, University of Texas Press, 1990, 167

DESPITE PERVASIVE LITANIES ABOUT Latin America's colorblind "racial democracy," blatant discrimination continues to plague descendants of the ten million African

DOMINICAN PRESIDENT JOA- quin Balaguer has, surely, never been in any serious danger of being mistaken for a man of