ReVista. Harvard Review | Winter 2018

ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America

Afro-Latin Americans (Winter 2018)

About

ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, published three times yearly, focuses on different themes related to Latin America. The magazine brings together different voices on each theme, highlighting the work of Harvard faculty, students, alumni and Visiting Scholars.

Like our parent institution, Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, we hope to foster cooperation and understanding among the people of the Americas. ReVista, in its pages, seeks to contribute to democracy, social progress and sustainable development and to stimulate dialogue on these issues.

June Carolyn Erlick is the Editor-in-chief of ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America and publications director overseeing the Center’s book series and working papers. She is also the author ofDesaparecida (Sophos, Guatemala, 2012), Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced, the Irma Flaquer Story (Seal Press, 2004), A Gringa in Bogotá: Living Colombia’s Invisible War (University of Texas Press, 2010) and Una Gringa en Bogotá (Santillana, 2007). She teaches journalism at Harvard Extension School and coordinates the journalism internship program there. She is a member of the board of the Maria Moor Cabot Prizes at Columbia University. Erlick received the James E. Conway Excellence in Teaching Writing Award in 2007. She has lived and worked in Latin America and Germany as a foreign correspondent. She holds a Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York. Erlick received her B.A. in Philosophy from Barnard College in New York. She received two Fulbright Fellowships, the first to Guatemala in 2000 and to Colombia in 2005-2006.

ReVista is made possible by generous support from Santander Bank.

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Table of Contents

First Take: The Rise of Afro-Latin America by Alejandro de la Fuente

Slavery and Precarious Freedom by Sidney Chalhoub

Afro-Boricua Agency by Agustín Laó-Montes

A View of Afro-Diasporic History from Colombia by Cristina García Navas 

Mining and the Defense of Afro-Colombian Territory by Stephen and Elizabeth Ferry

African and Afro-Indian Rebel Leaders in Latin America by Omar H. Ali 

The Routine of an Unconventional Path by Antonio J. Copete

«I Found My Island» by Miari Taina Stephens 

Transforming Havana’s Gay Ambiente by Matthew Leslie Santana 

Sandoval Redux by Nicholas T. Rinehart

Reflections on the Afro-Chilean Social Movement by Cristian Alejandro Báez Lazcano

Afro-Latin America by the Numbers by George Reid Andrews

Prejudice and Pride by Lowell Gundmundson

Salvador de Bahia by Enrique Aureng Silva

Witches, Wives, Secretaries and Black Feminists by Tianna S. Paschel

The Bearers by Ned Sublette

Afro-Roots and Mozart Too by Yosvany Terry

Negra/Anger by Álvaro Restrepo

La Candela Viva by Rebecca Kennedy de Lorenzini 

Multi-Faith Lives of Brazilian Congadeiros and Umbandistas by Genevieve E. V. Dempsey 

In the Footsteps of La Rebambaramba by Belén Vega Pichaco 

Black Aesthetics and Afro-Latinx Hip Hop by Sujatha Fernandes

Compañeros en Salud by Mercedes Aguerrebere Gómez Urquiza

Social Policy in Cuba A Review by Chris Tilly

Fighting Corruption through Diplomacy A Review by Claudia Escobar

Consumption as Resistance in the Age of Late Capitalism A Review by Eduardo Ledesma

(Junk) Food for Thought A Review by Glenn Garvin