As we celebrate African American History Month in the United States, America’s racialized past cannot be ignored nor forgotten. Latin America also has a large population of Afro-Latinos and this post is dedicated to providing our readers with some of the highlights from UC Berkeley Library’s collections from Latin America that deal with the nuanced history of Africans in Latin America. We have chosen only a few public domains and open access books that can be read online in times of ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Also, there are some books that are not in the public domain but can be read online by authenticating oneself using the UC Berkeley credentials.
Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America [electronic resource] / edited by Jerome C. Branche.
Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American biography / edited by Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Afro-Latin America : Black Lives, 1600-2000
Real cedula de Su Magestad concediendo libertad para el comercio de negros con las Islas de Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, y Provincia de Caracas, á españoles y extrangeros, baxo las reglas que se expresan.
¡Manteca! : an anthology of afro-latin@ poets / edited by Melissa Castillo-Garsow.
Trans-afrohispanismos : puentes culturales críticos entre África, Latinoamérica y España
Afrodescendencias y contrahegemonías : desafiando al decenio / Rosa Campoalegre Septien, Anny Ocoró Loango (coordinadoras) ; Ana Féliz Lafontaine [and others]
We leave you with a clip about Argentina también es afro: Las conquistas de la libertad (capítulo completo) – Canal Encuentro