Latin America - AAIHS

What is Afro-Latin America?

From Mexico to Brazil and beyond, Africans and people of African descent have fought in wars of independence, forged mixed

This month, I interviewed Alex Borucki about his new book, From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río

While wandering through the maze of microfilm one afternoon at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, Colombia, I

This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and

For centuries, black men and women have struggled for economic, social, and cultural rights under the banner of Pan-Africanism—the political