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Author Abreu-Torres, Dania

Title Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean
Published Lexington Books, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Series Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
Contents Cover; Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean; Series page; Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Identity and National Discourses; Chapter 1; Afro and Chinese Depictions in Peruvian Social Discourse at the Turn of the Twentieth Century*; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2; Locating Chinese Culture and Aesthetics in the Art of Wifredo Lam; Chinese in Cuba; Chinese-Afro-Cuban-European Traditions; Chinese Aesthetics; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3
Afro-Asian-Caribbean Connections in Transnational CirculationThe Ashram Concept: From India to Harlem; Diasporic Confluences, Political Cross-Pollination; Circle of Participants; Pilgrimage to Washington; "Why not freedom for Puerto Rico?"; The Ashram's Afterlife; Notes; Bibliography; Contact Zones, Solidarity, and Syncretism; Chapter 4; Merging the Transpacific with the Transatlantic; Writing Afro-Asian Postcolonial Cartographies; Intimate Laborers: Afro-Asians on the Plantations; Intimate Language: Colonia-go and Slavery; Intimate Love: Interracial Relationship and Mixed-race Children
ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Chapter 5; Parallels and Intersections; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6; Erased from Collective Memory; Jamaica in the Colonial Age; Indian indentured workers in Jamaica; Hinduism and Sadhus' way of life; The development of Rastafari; Rasta lifestyle; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Bodies, Genders, and Identities; Chapter 7; Body of Reconciliation; The Cuban Fetish; Writing the Fetish; Conclusion: Back to the Fetish?; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8; "I Am Like One of those Women"; Locating West Indian Masculinity; Embodying the Maternal in Bruised Hibiscus
Rejecting Male Privilege in The True History of ParadiseAndrogenized Gender in Gloria; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 9; La Mulata Achinada; Fine Disturbances in Race and Unsettling the Body; Families of Stone: Gendered Spiritual Lineages in the Americas; A Chinese Barrio Belonging to Oshún and Her Daughters; Casting Mulatas and Afro-Chinese Babalawos; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Editors
Summary This volume explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing specifically on how they negotiated shared social spaces and experiences to develop what in many cases would become a fusion of cultures
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Subject Black people -- Latin America.
Black people -- Caribbean Area.
Asians -- Latin America
Asians -- Caribbean Area
Asians
Black people
Race relations
SUBJECT Latin America -- Race relations
Caribbean Area -- Race relations
Subject Caribbean Area
Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Aïnouche, Linda
Iyengar, Malathi Michelle
Lee-DiStefano, Debbie
Lee-Loy, Anne-Marie
López, Kathleen
Moriuchi, Mey-Yen
Ossa, Luisa Marcela
ISBN 9781498587099
1498587097