Afro-descendants, identity, and the struggle for development in the Americas [electronic resource] / edited by Bernd Reiter and Kimberly Eison Simmons.

Includes bibliographical references.

Building black diaspora networks and meshworks for knowledge, justice, peace, and human rights / Faye V. Harrison -- Pan-Afro-Latin African Americanism revisited : legacies and lessons for transnational alliances in the new millennium / Darien J. Davis, Tianna S. Paschel, and Judith A. Morrison -- Haitians in the Dominican Republic : race, politics, and neoliberalism / Lauren Derby -- Navigating the racial terrain : blackness and mixedness in the United States and the Dominican Republic / Kimberly Eison Simmons -- Negotiating blackness within the multicultural state in Latin America : creole politics and identity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker -- Ethnic identity and political mobilization : the Afro-Colombian case / Leonardo Reales -- The grammar of color identity in Brazil / Seth Racusen -- Afro-Colombian welfare : an application of Amartya Sen's capability approach using multiple indicators multiple causes modeling (MIMIC) / Paula A. Lezama -- Racism in a racialized democracy and support for affirmative action policy in Salvador and São Paulo, Brazil / Gladys Mitchell-Walthour -- Afro-descendant peoples and public policies : the network of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women / Altagracia Balcácer Molina and Dorotea Wilson -- Decolonizing the imaging of African-derived religions / Amanda D. Concha-Holmes -- Neoliberal dilemmas : diaspora, displacement, and development in Buenos Aires / Judith M. Anderson -- Pluralizing race / Mamyrah A. Douge-Prosper.

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