Afro-Latin America

Five Questions

Bibliographic Data

ID2177884
AuthorsGeorge Reid-Andrews (0000-0002-5510-2456, Verizon (United States), corresponding author), George Reid Andrews
Year2009
Volume4
Issue2
Pages191-210
Publication date2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-2222 • E-ISSN: 1744-2230
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17442220902920119
OpenAlexW2006215247
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited73

This article surveys recent historical and social scientific research on Afro-Latin America and poses five questions about that work. (1) What kinds of scholars study Afro-Latin America, and why do they do so? What seem to be their motives, intellectual or otherwise? (2) How can Afro-Latin American societies most effectively achieve racial equality? (3) Is Latin American racial democracy a myth, a reality, or both? (4) Are Latin American racial identities as fluid, contingent, and shifting as the scholarly literature has tended to suggest? Or might they perhaps be more fixed and stable than is traditionally thought? (5) What do we learn when we undertake comparative studies of Afro-Latin American societies? More specifically, what do we learn when we compare Afro-Latin American experiences in different parts of the region, and when we compare Afro-Latin American and indigenous experiences

Democracy · Indigenous · Latin American studies · Latin Americans · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racial equality · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Classics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America