African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: THE MIDDLE PASSAGE AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAS PROJECT -- 1 Keith Morrison: Middle Passage -- PART II: SLAVERY, MIGRATION, AND RACIAL IDENTITY -- 2 The African Diaspora in the Americas: The Caribbean Dimension -- 3 Afro-Antillean Presence in the Latin American Melting Pot -- 4 Puerto Ricans in the Harlem Riot of 1935 -- 5 Rethinking "Racial Democracy": Perspectives from Black Thinkers in Twentieth-Century Brazil -- PART III: AFRICA IN THE ARTS: MIGRATION, IMPROVISATION, EXCHANGE -- 6 Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean: Early Images of Slavery and Forced Migration in the Americas -- 7 Improvisation in the Danzón and Its Ties to Early New Orleans Jazz -- 8 Afrochic: Africa in the Modernist Imagination -- 9 True Blood: Colorblindness, Blanqueamiento, and Vampire Ethnicity in Castro's Cuba -- 10 Introspection and Projection in Cuban Art -- 11 Hearing Reggaeton's African American Address -- 12 Black British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualizing Slavery -- PART IV: BLACK AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE GLOBAL HUMANITIES -- 13 Race and Representation in the Digital Humanities: An Inter-American Case Study -- 14 Black American Studies at the University of Delaware: Education across the Lines -- Index -- About the Contributors.

African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States upholds the transcendent interconnectedness of histories, stories, and cultural and disciplinary expression, and the centrality of the Middle Passage in connecting Harlem and Brooklyn to Havana, Kingston, and Rio de Janeiro.

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