This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to
Out of print for nearly two decades, Edward Mullen's scholarly edition of Juan Francisco Manzano's autobiography and poetry has long been considered the standard text for understanding this remarkable
Alan A. Aja argues that Afro-Cuban experiences of reception were vastly different than their predominantly "white" counterparts in South Florida, much due to processes of race-based social distancing
Quince Duncan is one of the most significant yet understudied Black writers in the Americas. A third-generation Afro-Costa Rican of West Indian heritage, he is the first novelist of African descent to
This book examines contemporary fiction and poetry by U.S.-based Afro-Latin@ writers originating from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean from a critical analysis and cultural lens. This study interrogates
Through a collection of theoretically engaging and empirically grounded texts, this book examines African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latin@s in the United States in order to explo
