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Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835
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After Brazil and the United States, Colombia has the third-largest population of African-descended peoples in the Western hemisphere. Yet the country is commonly viewed as a nation of Andeans, whites, and mestizos (peoples of mixed Spanish and indigenous Indian ancestry). Aline Helg examines the historical roots of Colombia's treatment and neglect of its Afro-Caribbean identity within the comparative perspective of the Americas. Concentrating on the Caribbean region, she explores the role of free and enslaved peoples of full and mixed African ancestry, elite whites, and Indians in the late colonial period and in the processes of independence and early nation building.Why did race not become an organizational category in Caribbean Colombia as it did in several other societies with significant African-descended populations? Helg argues that divisions within the lower and upper classes, silence on the issue of race, and Afro-Colombians' preference for individual, local, and transient forms of resistance resulted in particular spheres of popular autonomy but prevented the development of an Afro-Caribbean identity in the region and a cohesive challenge to Andean Colombia.
Considering cities such as Cartagena and Santa Marta, the rural communities along the Magdalena River, and the vast uncontrolled frontiers, Helg illuminates an understudied Latin American region and reintegrates Colombia into the history of the Caribbean. less
The University of North Carolina Press; September 2004
380 pages; ISBN 9780807875872
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Subject categories
- Academic > History > Latin America. Spanish America > South America > Colombia
- Academic > History > United States local history > The South. South Atlantic States > Virginia
- Academic > History > United States local history > New England > Maine
- Social Science > African-American Studies
- Social Science > Sociology
- History > Modern
- History > South America
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0807875872
9780807855409
9780807875872
