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Journal articles on the topic "Afro-Americas"

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Uchechukwu, Purity. "A Proposal for Afro-Hispanic Peoples and Culture as General Studies Course in African Universities." Humanities 8, no. 1 (2019): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8010034.

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After centuries of denial, suppression and marginalization, the contributions of Afro-Hispanics/Latinos to the arts, culture, and the Spanish spoken in the Americas is gradually gaining recognition as Afro-descendants pursue their quest for visibility and space in Spanish America. Hand in hand with this development is the young generation of Afro-Latinos who, are proud to identify with the black race. Ironically, the young African student has very little knowledge of the presence and actual situation of Afro-descendants in Spanish-speaking America. This is because many African universities still follow the old colonial system which excludes knowledge of the presence and cultures of the once enslaved Africans in the Spanish speaking world. Thus, while Afro-descendants are fighting for visibility and recognition in Spanish America, they remain almost invisible in the African continent. The aim of this paper is to propose a curriculum, Afro-Hispanic Peoples and Culture, as a general studies course in African universities. Such a curriculum would create in Africa the much-needed visibility and contributions of Afro-descendants in Spanish-speaking America, and also foster collaborative works between young African academics and their counterparts in the Americas.
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Lipski, John M. "Afro-Yungueño speech." Spanish in Context 4, no. 1 (2007): 1–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.4.1.02lip.

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The pidginized Spanish learned by millions of Africans in Latin America had a profound but as yet underexplored impact on the formation of Spanish American dialects. Literary imitations from previous centuries are questionable, and few vestiges of actual Afro-Hispanic language remain. This paper reports on a unique Afro-American speech community in highland Bolivia, possibly the oldest surviving Afro-American variety of any language. The Afro-Yungueño dialect, now spoken in contact with regional Andean Spanish, differs systematically from any other Spanish dialect, and provides empirical evidence of the earliest stages of Afro-Hispanic language in the Americas. It also provides key evidence in the debate surrounding the possible creolization of Spanish and Portuguese in other Afro-American contexts.
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Fuentes-Reinés, Juan M., Eduardo Suárez-Morales, and Cristian E. Granados-Martínez. "First occurrence of Mesocyclops aspericornis (Daday, 1906) (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) in northern Colombia." Check List 13, no. 2 (2017): 2076. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/13.2.2076.

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The occurrence of the Afro-Asian freshwater cyclopoid copepod Mesocyclops aspericornis in the Gaira River, Magdalena, northern Colombia, represents the first record in the area and expands its known distributional range in South America. The specimens examined are described and compared with available morphological data.The variability of this species is confirmed among American and Afro-Asian populations but it was observed also between two Colombian populations. This record contributes to track the advancement of this introduced species in the Americas.
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Sessarego, Sandro. "Afro-Peruvian Spanish in the context of Spanish Creole Genesis." Spanish in Context 11, no. 3 (2014): 381–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.11.3.04ses.

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This study presents linguistic and sociohistorical data on Afro-Peruvian Spanish (APS), an Afro-Hispanic dialect spoken in the province of Chincha (coastal Peru) by the descendants of the slaves taken to this region to work on sugarcane plantations in the seventeenth century. The present work provides new information on the origin of APS. In so doing, it casts new light on the genesis and evolution of Afro-Hispanic languages in the Americas and shows that, in light of recent works on the nature of Venezuelan, Ecuadorian and Bolivian slavery (Díaz-Campos & Clements 2008; Sessarego 2013a, 2014), colonial coastal Peru did not represent a “canonical breeding ground” (McWhorter 2000,7) for a creole language to form.
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Bretones Lane, Fernanda. "Afro-Latin America: A Special Teaching and Research Collection of The Americas." Americas 75, S1 (2018): S6—S18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/tam.2017.178.

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In his introduction to a special issue of The Americas in 2006, Ben Vinson III noted how easily the history of Latin America had been dissociated from that of the African Diaspora. “When looking at the broad trajectory of historical writings on Latin America outside of the Caribbean and Brazil, it has long been possible to do Latin American history without referencing blackness or the African Diaspora.” A decade later, it is safe to say that the tables have turned. What were before scattered efforts to recognize black individuals' contributions to the history, culture, economy, and political developments of the region as a whole have evolved into a growing field meriting its own name: Afro-Latin American Studies. Born of the cross-pollination of scholarly debates that were previously disparate, the field of Afro-Latin American Studies has grown and developed in response to the rise of Black Studies and in connection to new realities in countries where Afro-descendants have pushed for social and economic equality.
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Riggio, Milla Cozart. "Playing and Praying." Journal of Festive Studies 2, no. 1 (2020): 203–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2020.2.1.42.

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Theorizing carnival throughout the Americas means dealing not only with class and social issues in the context of modernity but also with the complexities of slavery, indentureship, colonialism, and neocolonialism reflected in this pre-Lenten festival. Dealing with carnival generally, it is impossible to separate its Christian, primarily Catholic, framework from the politics of its evolution and development. In the Americas, and in the island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in particular, the carnival story is further complicated by deeply embedded African and Asian influences. In a nation in which political parties are still largely race-based, with the division identified as “Afro-” or “Indo-,” politics are entwined not only with race and religion but also with class distinctions that realign supposed antagonists. This article traces the Afro-Trinidadian People’s National Movement (PNM) party’s paradoxical attempt to claim carnival as a national festival, while negating the essence of the emancipation carnival narrative that underlay its claim. It then examines warrior traditions crucial to that narrative. Afro-based kalinda, the martial art form that spawned stickfighting (or bois, as it is called in patois, with the fighters known as “boismen”) intermingled with Indo-identified stickfighting known as gatka, and the Indo-based, whipcracking jab jabs (devil-devils). Though racially distinct, these Afro- and Indo- traditions, which are actively being revived today, share world views (radically different from the ethos of Christian “respectability”) that honor the living presence of ancestors, acknowledge conflict as basic to life, respect nature as a living partner in human community, and practice rituals that are as sacred and protective as they are fundamentally violent.
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Sessarego, Sandro. "Chocó Spanish double negation and the genesis of the Afro-Hispanic dialects of the Americas." Diachronica 34, no. 2 (2017): 219–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.34.2.03ses.

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Abstract Chocó Spanish is an Afro-Hispanic dialect spoken in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia. This variety is characterized by the presence of double-negative constructions (neg2) (i.e., yo no como no “I do not eat”), which have repeatedly been classified in the literature as the contemporary traces of a previous Afro-Portuguese creole stage for this vernacular. The present paper provides linguistic and sociohistorical evidence offering an alternative explanation. In particular, neg2 is analyzed as an archaic morphosyntactic trait which already existed in 15th–19th century Spanish and which has been preserved in Chocó Spanish and other conservative Afro-Hispanic vernaculars of Latin America.
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Maillo-Pozo, Sharina. "Resisting Colonial Ghosts." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 23, no. 2 (2019): 132–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703368.

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Through a discussion of Dixa Ramírez’s Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present (2018), this essay highlights and expands on the ways Dominican and Dominican American women have negotiated, resisted, and refused their historical obliteration in Western imaginaries. Three questions guide the commentary: How have Afro-Dominican women been ghosted from national building projects in both the Dominican Republic and the United States? How have Afro-Dominican women writers and performers refused traditional understandings of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and nationality? How do the works of these women remind us that silences, omissions, and exclusions from dominant narratives are irresolute forms of violence executed and perpetuated by Western powers and constantly replicated by the Dominican intellectual and economic elite?
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Lipski, John M. "Trinidad Spanish: implications for Afro-Hispanic language." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 64, no. 1-2 (1990): 7–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002023.

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[First paragraph]The question of Spanish language usage among African-born slaves (known as bozales) and their descendents in Spanish America is the subject of much controversy, and has had a major impact on theories of Creole formation and the evolution of Latin American dialects of Spanish, Portuguese and French. Briefly, one school of thought maintains that, at least during the last 150-200 years of African slave trade to Spanish America, bozales and their immediate descendants spoke a relatively uniform Spanish pidgin or creole, concentrated in the Caribbean region but ostensibly extending even to many South American territories. This creole in turn had Afro-Portuguese roots, derived from if not identical to the hypothetical maritime Portuguese creole (sometimes also identified with the medieval Sabir or Lingua Franca) claimed to be the source of most European - based Creoles in Africa, Asia and the Americas.1 The principal sources of evidence come in 19th century documents from the Caribbean region, principally Cuba and Puerto Rico, where many (but not all) bozal texts share a noteworthy similarity with other demonstrably Afro-Portuguese or Afro-Hispanic Creoles in South America, Africa and Asia.
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Sessarego, Sandro. "The legal hypothesis of creole genesis." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32, no. 1 (2017): 1–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.32.1.01ses.

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The origins of the Afro-Hispanic Languages of the Americas (AHLAs), the languages that developed in Latin America from the contact of African languages and Spanish in colonial times, are extremely intriguing, since it still has to be explained why we do not find creole languages in certain regions of Spanish America, where the socio-demographic conditions for creole languages to emerge appear to have been in place in colonial times. Nowadays, in contrast, we can find such contact varieties in similar former colonies, which were ruled by the British, the French or the Dutch (McWhorter 2000). Despite the fascinating implications of this phenomenon, our knowledge of the AHLAs remains extremely limited. Several hypotheses have been proposed to account for this situation, but no common consensus has yet been achieved (Chaudenson 2001; Mintz 1971; Laurence 1974; Granda 1968; Schwegler 1993, 2014; Lipski 1993; etc.). The pull of different views on the issue has been labelled in the literature as the ‘Spanish creole debate’ (Lipski 2005: ch.9). The current study is aimed at casting new light on the Spanish creole debate by relying on a comparative analysis of slave laws in the Americas. This article highlights the role that legal differences played in shaping colonial societies and the Afro-European languages that developed in the New World.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Afro-Americas"

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Jones, Esther. "Traveling discourses: subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women’s speculative fictions in the Americas." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1155665383.

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Ball, Karlene N. "A comparative study of the poetry and politics of five poets that represent the afro voice in the literature across the Americas : Aimé Cesaire, Nicolás Guillén, Langston Hughes, Luis Palés Matos and Claude McKay /." 2006. http://www.consuls.org/record=b2801885.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2006.<br>Thesis advisor: Antonio García-Lozada. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Spanish." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-104). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Books on the topic "Afro-Americas"

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Afro-descendants, identity, and the struggle for development in the Americas. Michigan State University Press, 2012.

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Invisible poets: Afro-Americans of the nineteenth century. 2nd ed. University of Illinois Press, 1989.

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Britain and the black peoples of the Americas, 1550-1930. JET, 1992.

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Stevenson, Rosemary M. Index to Afro-American reference resources. Greenwood Press, 1988.

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The world they made together: Black and white values in eighteenth-century Virginia. Princeton University Press, 1987.

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The world they made together: Black and white values in eighteeth-century Virginia. Princeton University Press, 1989.

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J, Davis Thomas, ed. Africans in the Americas: A history of the Black diaspora. St. Martin's Press, 1994.

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Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. Face of the gods: Art and altars of Africa and the African Americas. Museum for African Art, 1993.

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Coser, Stelamaris. Bridging the Americas: The literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones. Temple University Press, 1995.

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Diouf, Sylviane A. Servants of Allah: African Muslims enslaved in the Americas. New York University Press, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Afro-Americas"

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Sera, James, and Robert Voeks. "Berimbau de barriga: Musical Ethnobotany of the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora." In African Ethnobotany in the Americas. Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0836-9_8.

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van Andel, Tinde, Sofie Ruysschaert, Kobeke Van de Putte, and Sara Groenendijk. "What Makes a Plant Magical? Symbolism and Sacred Herbs in Afro-Surinamese Winti Rituals." In African Ethnobotany in the Americas. Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0836-9_10.

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Tubb, Daniel G. L. "The Everyday Social Economy of Afro-Descendants in the Chocó, Colombia." In The Black Social Economy in the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60047-9_6.

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Gayles, Prisca, and Diane Ghogomu. "The Social Economy of Afro-Argentines and African Immigrants in Buenos Aires." In The Black Social Economy in the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60047-9_7.

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Fadiman, Maria. "Marketing, Culture, and Conservation Value of NTFPs: Case Study of Afro-Ecuadorian Use of Piquigua, Heteropsis ecuadorensis (Araceae)." In African Ethnobotany in the Americas. Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0836-9_7.

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Hoffman, Bruce. "Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America." In African Ethnobotany in the Americas. Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0836-9_13.

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FROMONT, CÉCILE. "Envisioning Brazil’s Afro-Christian Congados:." In Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas. Penn State University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv14gp1n5.11.

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IYANAGA, MICHAEL. "On Hearing Africas in the Americas:." In Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas. Penn State University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv14gp1n5.13.

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STEWART, DIANNE M. "The Orisa House That Afro-Catholics Built:." In Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas. Penn State University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv14gp1n5.12.

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"Front Matter." In Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas. Penn State University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv14gp1n5.1.

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