"The census campaign for a group of Latino organizations is supporting the Afro-Latino Forum's
campaign encouraging Afro-Latinos to acknowledge their Black and Latino heritage in the 2010 Census," Bruno Gaston writes in the article "Latino Census Campaign Supports Drive to
'Check Both'" for Redding News Review.
" 'The (It's Time: Get Counted) campaign fully supports
the efforts of every individual to self-identify on the 2010 Census form," Cruz said. "The Latino community
in the United States continues to evolve and our multi-racial heritage should be recognized and celebrated."
"It will be the rarest of sights: a black-hulled, two-masted replica of a slave-carrying
schooner slipping into Havana's harbor flying two flags - those of the United States and Cuba," Jim Kuhnhenn writes for the Associated Press.
"The Amistad is the 10-year-old official tall ship of the state of Connecticut
and a replica of the Cuban coastal trader that sailed from Havana in 1839 with a cargo of African captives, only to become
an emblem of the abolitionist movement.
"As a U.S.-flagged ship, the Amistad's
10-day, two-city tour of Cuba provides a counterpoint to new and lingering tensions between Washington and Havana and stands
out as a high-profile exception to the 48-year-old U.S. embargo of the Caribbean island.
"...When
it drops anchor in Havana's harbor on March 25, the Amistad will not only observe its 10th anniversary, it will commemorate
the day in 1807 when the British Parliament first outlawed the slave trade."
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The Sound of My Footsteps: Narratives of Migratory Jamaican immigrants
Interviews with over 30 Jamaican immigrants on their
pre-migratory perceptions of New York and England
The Afro-Latin@ Reader:
History and Culture in the United States
The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community
in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s
in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories
or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African
Americans. At the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African
Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity, nation, identity,
and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United
States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including
scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews.
African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events
by Karen Juanita Carrillo
The proof
of any group's importance to history is in the detail, a fact made plain by this informative book's day-by-day documentation
of the impact of African Americans on life in the United States. One of the easiest ways to grasp any aspect of history
is to look at it as a continuum. African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides just
such an opportunity.
The
View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the present, and their hopes for the future
by Karen Juanita Carrillo
The View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the
present, and their hopes for the future is an introduction to the lives of Blacks in Colombia. Afro-Colombians
live in a resource-rich yet remote region of Colombia. They only recently won recognition as one of that nation's
distinct ethnic groups. But Colombia's on-going civil war has led many Afro-Colombians to reach even farther than
their nation's borders for recognition: many have made their way to the United States as refugees and as political
activists working for peace in their homeland. The View from Chocó introduces the lives and struggles of a too-long neglected community of Colombian Blacks.
Raise Your Brown Black Fist is a collection of essays
written by Kevin Alberto Sabio during his time as a Contributing Writer for an online magazine.
The book combines his two article series, "Black
vs Brown" and "Black Thoughts: A Political Ideological Perspective
for Afrolatinos" into one volume, plus three other miscellaneous entries.The bookis currently available through his publisher, AuthorHouse.
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