Afro-Latino-América: Black and Afro-descendant Rights and Struggles

Bush, Deborah, Bush, Shaun, Cayasso-Dixon, Kendall, Cupples, Julie, Gleghorn, Charlotte, Glynn, Kevin, Henríquez Cayasso, George, Smith, Dixie, Moreno Rojas, Cecilia, Perea Lemos, Ramón, Ribeiro, Raquel and Casildo, Zulma (2018) Afro-Latino-América: Black and Afro-descendant Rights and Struggles. In: The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development. Routledge International Handbooks . Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 236-251. ISBN 9781138060739, 9781315162935

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Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of Afro-descendant activism in Latin America with specific attention to the situation in Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua. It outlines the forms of structural racism and invisibilization to which Afro-Latin Americans are subjected, and the ways in which activists are attempting to dismantle the forms of disadvantage and discrimination, with a particular focus on media activism. While policies of whitening have been thoroughly discredited and long abandoned, the attitudes associated with them persist, generating a process of internal colonialism and endoracism that exists to this day. The legacy of such prejudices can be seen in ongoing forms of Afro-descendant exclusion and marginalization throughout the continent and the greater social mobility enjoyed by people who are lighter-skinned. Some Afro-Latin Americans, particularly those who are urban-based, do, however, consciously adopt a diasporic identity.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	L700 Human and Social Geography
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Geography and Environmental Sciences
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	21 Nov 2018 12:44
Last Modified:	24 Feb 2021 09:42
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/36844

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