https://doi.org/10.25058/issn.2011-2742

African Diaspora

Geography and the African Diaspora: an assessment

Judith A. Carney carney@geog.ucla.edu University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA (USA) Abstract: The study of the African diaspora has become a vibrant area of research and teaching in recent years across the disciplines. However, geographical contributions remain few. This article seeks to reverse that trend. Relevant work by geographers on the Black Atlantic is reviewed […]

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Trajectories of blackness: an open reading of the encounters that produce contingent definitions of lo negro in Latin America

Roosbelinda Cárdenas González rcardena@ucsc.edu University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Abstract: This article traces a genealogy of the concept of blackness in Latin America by reviewing historical and anthropological literature that, though not always centrally concerned with the production of blackness, nonetheless reveals how ideas about blackness have traveled across time and space. I begin […]

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