Afro-Latin America

Five Questions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2177884
AutoresGeorge Reid-Andrews (0000-0002-5510-2456, Verizon (United States), autor de correspondencia), George Reid Andrews
Año2009
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas191-210
Fecha de publicación2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLatin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1744-2222 • E-ISSN: 1744-2230
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17442220902920119
OpenAlexW2006215247
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas73

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