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Author:

Gates, Henry Louis.

Title:

Black in Latin America / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Blacks--Latin America--History.
Blacks--Race identity--Latin America.
Slavery--Latin America--History.
Latin America--African influences.--African influences.
Latin America--Race relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-247) and index.

Contents:

Brazil : "May Exú give me the power of speech" -- Mexico : "The black grandma in the closet" -- Peru : the black soul of Peru -- The Dominican Republic : "Black behind the ears" -- Haiti : "From my ashes I rise; God is my cause and my sword" (motto on King Henri Christophe's Haitian flag, 1811-1820) -- Cuba : the next Cuban revolution.

ISBN:

0814733425 (ebk.)
9780814733424 (ebk.)
0814732992 (ebk.)
9780814732991 (ebk.)
0814732984 (hbk.)
9780814732984 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)692291843

LCCN:

2011007759

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)