The chapters in these volumes excel in describing the diverse culturalresponses of black populations to unique local and national contexts.... Whitten andTorres have produced a valuable collection destined to become a standard referencework on black cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean." -- AmericanAnthropologist
To understand the meanings of "blackness"in the African diaspora, we must critically examine the paradigms that have emergedover the past five centuries out of Euroamerican racism and black liberation. Theseseminal volumes add immeasurably to our understanding of those paradigms and of theblack experience in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.