Aline Helg 
Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835 [EPUB ebook] 

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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.

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Aline Helg is professor of history at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She is author of the award-winning Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 384 ● ISBN 9780807875872 ● Taille du fichier 2.2 MB ● Maison d’édition The University of North Carolina Press ● Lieu Chapel Hill ● Pays US ● Publié 2005 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6469015 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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