Latin America - AAIHS

Diaspora as Praxis: Building Black Consciousness in Buenos Aires

May 28, 2018June 5, 2018 Keyanah Freeland Afro-Latin, Argentina, Latin America

Located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Crespo, the newly minted Espacio Malcolm–named after Malcolm X and also known

Reaping the Revolution: Urban Agriculture in Havana, Cuba

January 4, 2018January 8, 2018 J. T. Roane Activism, Afro-Cubans, Caribbean, Cuba, environment, food, Latin America, religion

During my recent visit to Cuba, I took a coco, one of Havana’s zipping yellow motorcycle taxis, from my accommodations

Fears of Black Political Activism in Cuba and Beyond, 1912–2017

June 12, 2017June 14, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson Activism, Afro-Cubans, black politics, Caribbean, Cuba, Latin America, Politics, Racial Violence, racism

Images of police officers violently targeting black protestors in Buenaventura, Colombia, restraining Black Lives Matter activists in Charlotte, NC, or

Theorizing Race in the Americas: An Interview with Juliet Hooker

May 5, 2017May 8, 2017 Francisco Herrera Frederick Douglass, Latin America, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

In today’s post, Francisco Herrera, an MA student in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, interviews

Representations of Black Women in Cuba

May 4, 2017May 6, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson Afro-Cubans, Black women, Caribbean, Cuba, Latin America

With the continued box office success of the Fate of the Furious, we are once again returning to the idea