
Afro-Colombia denied
A HUNDRED BLACK LEADERS AND PEASANTS from Colombia's Pacific Coast and northern Cauca Valley gathered in the southwestern city of ...

The Long Night of Slavery
BETWEEN 1518 AND 1873, IN THE LARGEST CO- erced migration in history, the international trade in human beings carried nearly ...

In Review
Cafe Con Leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela by Winthrop R. Wright, University of Texas Press, 1990, 167 ...

THE BLACK AMERICAS 1492-1992
DESPITE PERVASIVE LITANIES ABOUT Latin America's colorblind "racial democracy," blatant discrimination continues to plague descendants of the ten million African ...

An Anatomy of Racism
DOMINICAN PRESIDENT JOA- quin Balaguer has, surely, never been in any serious danger of being mistaken for a man of ...

CHILE Chiloé Island Wrestles With Free Market Forces
Like anyone who makes a living from the sea, Arnoldo Raimilla is no stranger to outside forces. On Chilod island ...

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Maroons of the Caribbean
RESISTANCE WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF Caribbean slave society. Slaves resisted in myriad ways-from the subtle and passive, acted out ...