Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America

1976 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
John F. Bratzel ◽  
Leslie B. Rout ◽  
Robert Brent Toplin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations

Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America

1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 681
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Grieb ◽  
Robert Brent Toplin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations

Afro-Latin Soul and Hip-Hop

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Nava
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
New World ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores the history of African and Spanish musical fusions. In terms of race relations in the New World specifically, music has frequently been the occasion for an exchange of ideas and sounds that has brought together various cultures, transforming conflicting and clashing relations into harmonious streams of sound. Hence, lingering affinities from medieval Al-Andalus have been the inspiration for African and Spanish conjunctions and collaborations in modern times and have resulted in novel, hybrid inventions, everything from salsa and samba to funk and hip-hop. This chapter focuses on hip-hop within this context, though it also takes a look at the cultural soil of Latin America to appreciate the roots and branches of African and Spanish blends in the New World.

From Slaves to Citizens? Tannenbaum and the Debates on Slavery, Emancipation, and Race Relations in Latin America

2010 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro de la Fuente
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations

AbstractWhy isSlave and Citizen, Frank Tannenbaum's influential comparative book on slavery and race relations, still referenced by modern scholars? How is it that a book that is frequently described as flawed continues to inform contemporary scholarship on race and slavery? This article seeks to answer these questions by reconstructing some of the scholarly debates sparked bySlave and Citizen. Specifically, the article discusses how some of the central premises of Tannenbaum's approach continue to inform the work of current scholars. Three of these premises are discussed in some detail: first, that “Anglo” and “Latin” America constituted two separate entities; second, that race relations in each area were fundamentally different; and third, that differences in modern race relations could only be explained by their divergent “slave systems.”

scholarly journals Race, culture, and history: Charles Wagley and the anthropology of the African Diaspora in the Americas

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Hay
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Local Community ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
New Graduate ◽  
Social Race ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
The University

When I came to the University of Florida in 1981, I was informed that Charles Wagley was not accepting new graduate students. After my first class with Wagley, he agreed to be my advisor and mentor and I became the last student he accepted. Though better known for his sensitive and pioneering ethnography of indigenous and peasant populations and his influential anthropological/historical overviews of Brazil and Latin America, Wagley and his students' contributions to the study of Afro-American cultures and race relations in the Americas are considerable. Among the important concepts that Wagley articulated were 'social race', 'Plantation America', and the 'amorphous and weakly organized local community without clear boundaries in space or membership'. Wagley guided my dissertation research in Haiti. In it I developed his concept by proposing 'cultural amorphousness' as a 'total cultural style' (following Kroeber) of African Diaspora cultures in the Plantation American cultural sphere: a primary organizing principle that has proved to be an effective adaptation to plantation and its successor societies.

scholarly journals Corrigendum

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 828-828
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Racial Democracy ◽  
Made In

Silva GM (2016) After racial democracy: Contemporary puzzles in race relations in Brazil, Latin America and beyond from a boundaries perspective. Current Sociology 64(5): 794-812. DOI: 10.1177/0011392115590488 The author would like to draw attention to the following correction. On p.802 of this article, where it is written: “[…] scholars who want to underplay the importance of race in Brazil tend to see this as evidence that race is not as central, or at least not a factor of discrimination for a large percentage of non-whites (Fry, 2005)” This section should read: “[…] scholars who emphasize the convergence of opinions tend to see this as evidence of a more successful policy of cultural integration that illustrates understandings of race as less essentialized (Fry, 2005)”. This correction does not change the main arguments made in the article.

Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America

1976 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 699
Author(s):  
Carl N. Degler ◽  
Robert Brent Toplin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations

Political Field Alignments

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianna S. Paschel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Racial Policy ◽  
Black Populations

This chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to analyze the process through which blackness became legitimated as a category of political contestation in the eyes of the state and other powerful political actors in Latin America, specifically Colombia and Brazil. The author does this by examining archives and conducting ethnographic fieldwork over nearly eight years in the style of what scholars across disciplines have called “political ethnography.” The discussions then turn to a comparison of race relations in Latin America and the United States in the twentieth century; the adoption of specific policies for black populations in Latin America; ethno-racial policy in Latin America; and why Colombia and Brazil are obvious choices for an analysis of black rights in Latin America. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

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