Blackness and cultural difference
Nurturing Bantu Africanness in Bahia / Patricia de Santana Pinho
Strategies of the Black Pacific: Music and Diasporic Identity in Peru / Heidi Carolyn Feldman
Malandreo Negro: Gangsta Rap and the Politics of Exclusion in Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes
Performing the African Diaspora in Mexico / Angela N. Castañeda
Visions of a Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Images of Blacks in the Work of Víctor Patricio de Landaluze / Elizabeth Morán
Afro Social Movements and Mobilization
Afro-Colombian Social Movements / Peter Wade
Beyond Citizenship as We Know It: Race and Ethnicity in Afro-Colombian Struggles for Citizenship Equality / Bettina Ngweno
Black Activism in Ecuador, 1979-2009 / Ollie A. Johnson III
Afro-Ecuadorian Community Organizing and Political Struggle: Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes / Jean Muteba Rahier
The Black Movement's Foot Soldiers: Black Women and Neighborhood Struggles for Land Rights in Brazil / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
State Responses
Social Movements in Latin America: The Power of Regional and National Networks / Judith A. Morrison
Negotiating Blackness within the Multicultural State: Creole Politics and Identity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker
Todos Somos Iguales, Todos Somos Incas: Dilemmas of Afro-Peruvian Citizenship and Inca Whiteness in Peru / Shane Greene
Sociology and Racial Inequality: Challenges and Approaches in Brazil /Antonio Guimares
Black
but Not Haitian: Color, Class, and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic / Ernesto Sagás.