Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies

This Handbook provides a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American Studies. Afro-Latins as a civilization developed during the period of slavery, obtaining cultural contributions from Indigenous and European worlds, while today they are enriched by new social configurations derived from contemporary migrations from Africa. The essays collected in this volume speak to scientific production that has been promoted in the region from the humanities and social sciences with the aim of understanding the phenomenon of the African diaspora as a specific civilizing element. With contributions from world-leading figures in their fields overseen by an eminent international editorial board, this Handbook features original, authoritative articles organized in four coherent parts: • Disciplinary Studies; • Problem Focused Fields; • Regional and Country Approaches; • Pioneers of Afro-Latin American Studies. The Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies will not only serve as the major reference text in the area of Afro-Latin American Studies but will also provide the agenda for future new research.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Part 1: Disciplinary Studies 1. A Short History of Afro-Latin American Studies, 1890-2020 2. The Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Afro-Latin America: A Brief Illustrative History 3. A Global Overview of Sociological Studies on Afro-Descendants 4. Afro-Latin American Linguistics from African Nationalities to American Demonyms 5. African Diaspora Archaeology in Latin America: Advances and Future Debates 6. Logbook to Describe the Routes of Afro-Latin American Literature 7. Inequities in Life Opportunities for Afro-Descendants in Latin America: A Literary Review 8. "Afro Latin American Legal Studies" 9. "Afro-Latin American Politics" 10. Afro-Latin American Geography 11. The Difficult Decolonization of Latin American Psyche Part 2: Thematic Fields of Study 12. Studies on Slavery 13. Studies on Racialized Relations 14. Studies on Racial Classifications in Latin America 15. Nations, Castes, Qualities, and Races in Latin American Viceregal Societies: Ambiguities in the Denomination of Afro-Descendant Populations 16. From cordial to structural racism 17. Studies on The Black Atlantic and Pacific 18. "Afro-descendant Territorialities in Latin America": Assertions, Processes and Dilemmas 19. The Negritude Movement in Latin America 20. Human Rights in Afro-Latin America 21. Afrodescendants, Multiculturalism, and the Adoption of Ethnoracial Law in Latin America 22. Studies on Democracy and Afro-Descendant Political Participation in Latin America 23. Black Feminisms in Latin America and the Caribbean: Contributions to the State of the Art 24. Patterns of urban racial residential segregation in Latin America: the cases of Brazil and Colombia 25. Afro-Latin American Music in Perspective: Studies and Narratives From and Toward the Territory 26. The Rise of the Afrodiasporic Meta-Genres and the Global Afro-Latinx 27. African inspired religions in Latin America 28. Challenges and Opportunities for Public Policies of Recognition and Inclusion 29. Marronage in the Great Caribbean 30. Black Marxists or Black Marxisms? A Decolonial Gaze 31. Studies on Demographics and Social Indicadors: Afrodescendants in Latin America and their Sociodemographic Realities 32. Post-Abolition Black Migrations: New Approaches to the Movement of Afro-descendants From Colonial Times to the Present Part 3: Regional or country study approaches 33. Afro-Brazilian Studies from a Black Perspective 34. Perspectives Denied: Afro-Descendant Studies in Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay 35. A historical, socio-political and discourse approach to the emerging field of Afroperuvian Studies 36. Afro-Ecuadorian Studies 37. Afro-Bolivian Past(s) and Present(s) in Scholarship 38. Afro Colombian Studies: From the liberal reforms of the 1940s to the COVID19 era in the 2020s 39. Afro-Panamanian Studies 40. Overcoming Invisibility: Afro-Descendants in Central America 41. From Miscegenation Policies to Constitutional Recognition: A State of the Art in Afro-Mexican Studies 42. In Defense of Black Life: A Brief Cultural History of Anti-Racist Efforts in Puerto Rico 43. Culture, Race and Nation in Afro-Cuban Studies: Trajectories and Challenges of an Open Field of Study 44. Haitian Studies Rising 45. Afro French Antillian Studies 46. An Introduction to Afro Dominican Studies 47. Afro-Venezuelan Studies in Two Times. Four Versions of One Reality Part 4: Pioneers or classics of Afro-Latin American Studies 48. Melville Herskovits 49. Pioneers and Continuing Contributors of Afro-Cuban Studies 50. Lélia Gonzalez, a intelectual afro-latin american 51. José Carlos Luciano Huapaya (1956 – 2002) 52. Aquiles Escalante Polo: Anthropologist and Educator of Afro-Colombian, Black, Maroon, and Indigenous Plurality 53. Rogerio Velásquez Murillo: Pioneer of Anthropology of Negredumbre 54. Jacob Gorender and Studies on Slavery in Brazil 55. Manuel Zapata Olivella: A Wandering Thinker (1920–2004) 56. Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, Pioneer in the Study of the Black Population in Mexico 57. Robert Cooper West (1913-2001) 58. Jean Price-Mars: Anti-west Resistance, African Rapprochement as an Approachment to Humanism and Hatianness 59. René Depestre 60. Abdias Nascimento 61. Gilberto Freyre: Race Relations in Brazil: Gilberto Freyre as Their Interpreter 62. Franklin E. Frazier 63. Roger Bastide (1898–1974) in Afro-Brazilian Studies 64. Raimundo Nina Rodrigues: The Physician and His Informants, the Scientist and the Specialists 65. Edison Carneiro, Between the Scientist and the Native 66. Manuel Querino 67. Juan García ‘Worker of the process’ and pioneer of Afro-descendant Studies in Ecuador 68. Nina S. de Friedemann and the African shadow 69. Luz María Martinez Montiel, a Mexican Africanist, Pioneer in Afro-Mexican Studies 70. Ruth Landes and the Interstices of a Research Field: Race and Gender Relations in Getúlio Vargas’s Brazil 71. Racial Prejudice and Stigma of Disease in the Work of Oracy Nogueira 72. Virginia Leone Bicudo: A Pioneer in Studies on Race Relations in Brazil 73. Angelina Pollak-Eltz 74. Beatriz Nascimento: Intellectual, Activist and Poet