Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas.

Intro -- Contents -- Prologue - Bernd Reiter -- Introduction - Bernd Reiter -- Part 1: The Black Atlantic Reexamined -- Building Black Diaspora Networks and Meshworks for Knowledge, Justice, Peace, and Human Rights - Faye V. Harrison -- Pan-Afro-Latin African Americanism Revisited: Legacies and Lessons for Transnational Alliances in the New Millennium - Darién J. Davis, Tianna S. Paschel, and Judith A. Morrison -- Part 2: Double-Consciousness and Black Identity - Globalized -- Haitians in the Dominican Republic: Race, Politics, and Neoliberalism - Lauren Derby -- Navigating the Racial Terrain: Blackness and Mixedness in the United States and the Dominican Republic - Kimberly Eison Simmons -- Negotiating Blackness within the Multicultural State in Latin America: Creole Politics and Identity in Nicaragua - Juliet Hooker -- Ethnic Identity and Political Mobilization: The Afro-Colombian Case - Leonardo Reales Jiménez -- The Grammar of Color Identity in Brazil - Seth Racusen -- Part 3: Racism in "Raceless "Societies and the State: The Difficulties of Addressing What Ought Not Exist -- Afro-Colombian Welfare: An Application of Amartya Sen's Capability Approach Using Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes Modeling (MIMIC) - Paula A. Lezama -- Racism in a Racialized Democracy and Support for Affirmative Action Policy in Salvador and São Paulo, Brazil - Gladys Mitchell-Walthour -- Afro-Descendant Peoples and Public Policies: The Network of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women - Altagracia Balcácer Molina and Dorotea Wilson -- Part 4: Migration, Diasporas,and the Importance of Local Knowledge -- Decolonizing the Imaging of African-Derived Religions - Amanda D. Concha-Holmes -- Neoliberal Dilemmas: Diaspora, Displacement, and Development in Buenos Aires - Judith M. Anderson -- Pluralizing Race - Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper -- Conclusion - Bernd Reiter.

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