The editors argue that if we are to understand the meanings of blackness in the African diaspora, and elsewhere, we must critically examine paradigms that have emerged over the past five centuries out of Euroamerican racism and black liberation. In their introduction to this volume the editors present two challenges. The first is to understand the range and varieties of black communal experiences across vast distances, and to incorporate historical information on blackness. The second challenge is to provide a prolegomena to a theory capable of including the diversity of subjects pertinent to African diaspora research. The general introduction to this volume and the volume on Eastern South America and the Caribbean discusses historical forces, and provides a critical, interpretive theory of structures of domination and processes of liberation in the Black Americas. By dealing with racialist concepts from the dual standpoints of nation-state and ethnic-bloc, the introduction clarifies many issues of cultural representation and social identity in Latin America and the Caribbean. These works take a major step toward understanding the complexity of black experiences in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean and establishes new research directions for the late twentieth century, and beyond. In addition to drawing on their own insights based on years of field research, the editors summarize the contribution of each chapter and provide working bibliography of more than 200 entries drawn from well-known and obscure sources that range through anthropology, history, art history, geography, literature, lore, religion and music.
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An examination of the meaning of OblacknessO in the African diaspora.
Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: The Black Americas and the African
Diaspora in the Late Twentieth Century Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and Arlene
Torres, General Introduction To Forge the Future in the Fires of the Past:
An Interpretive Essay on Racism, Domination, Resistance and Liberation Part
II: Central America and the Northern South American Lowlands
Chapter 1:
Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and Arlene Torres, Introduction to Volume I: Central
America, Northern, and Western South America
Chapter 2: Norman E. Whitten,
Jr. and Diego Quiroga, O... to rescue national dignityO: Blackness as a
Quality of Nationalist Creativity in Ecuador
Chapter 3: R. S. Bryce-Laporte
Crisis, Contraculture, and Religion Among West Indians in the Panama Canal
Zone
Chapter 4: Philippe Bourgois The Black Diaspora in Costa Rica: Upward
Mobility and Ethnic Discrimination
Chapter 5: Virginia Kerns Structural
Continuity in the Division of MenOs and WomenOs Work among the Black Carib
(Gar'funa) [ Belize]
Chapter 6: Carol L. Jenkins Ritual and Resource Flow:
The Gar'funa dugu
Chapter 7: Norman E. Whitten, Jr. Ritual Enactment of Sex
Roles in the Pacific Lowlands of Ecuador-Colombia
Chapter 8: Nina S. de
Friedeman Gold Mining and Descent: Gu'lmamb', Nari-o [ Colombia]
Chapter 9:
Rebecca B. Bateman Africans and Indians: A Comparative Study of the Black
Carib and Black Seminole [ Honduras, Belize, Florida]
Chapter 10: Berta P rez
Pantera Negra: A Messianic Figure of Historical Resistance and Cultural
Survival Among Maroon Descendants in Southern Venezuela
Chapter 11: David M.
Guss The Selling of San Juan: The Performance of History in an
Afro-Venezuelan Community
Chapter 12: Joel Streicker Policing Boundaries:
Race, Class, and Gender in Cartagena, Colombia [ Atlantic Coast, Colombia]
Part III: The Andes
Chapter 13: Peter Wade The Cultural Politics of
Blackness in Colombia
Chapter 14: Madeline Barbara L ons Stratification and
Pluralism in the Bolivian Yungas
Chapter 15: Kathleen Klumpp Black Traders
of North Highland Ecuador
Chapter 16: Peter Wade Medell'n: Working in the
City Medell'n: Living in the City
Chapter 17: Robert W. Templeman OWe Are
of the Yungas, We Are the Saya Race:O Afro-Bolivian Music and the Emergence
of the Black Movement in Bolivia
Chapter 18: Michael Taussig Folk Healing
and the Structure of Conquest in Southwest Colombia
