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  • Our Rightful Share

    The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912

    by Aline Helg ...
    In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the island's transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state. She challenges Cuba's well-established myth of racial equality and shows that racism is deeply rooted in Cuban creole society. Helg argues that despite Cuba's abolition of slavery in 1886 and its winning of independence ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Liberation Theology and the Others

    Contextualizing Catholic Activism in 20th Century Latin America

    by Andrea Müller, Noah Oehri, Juan Miguel Espinoza Portocarrero, Josef Estermann, Américo Freire, Lorena García Mourelle, Aline Helg, Rolando Iberico Ruiz, Betsy Konefal0, Eben Levey1, Andrew Orta2, Brad H. Wright3, Christian Büschges4 ...
    Looking beyond prominent figures or major ecclesial events, Liberation Theology and the Others offers a fresh historical perspective on Latin American liberation theology. Thirteen case studies, from Mexico to Uruguay, depict a vivid picture of religious and lay activism that shaped the profile of the Latin American Catholic Church in the second half of the 20th century. Stressing the ... Read more

    $107.79 USD

  • Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation

    The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912

    by Manuel Barcia, Matt Childs, Willaim F. Santiago-Valles, Michele Reid-Vazquez, Tomas Fernandez Robaina, Matthew Pettway, Melina Pappademos, Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya, Jacqueline Grant Kent, Aline Helg, Ada Ferrer, Joseph C. Dorsey, Barbara Francisca Danzie León, Takkara Brunson ...
    Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation offers a new perspective on black political life in Cuba by analyzing the time between two hallmark Cuban events, the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the Race War of 1912. In so doing, this anthology provides fresh insight into the ways in which Cubans practiced and understood black freedom and resistance, from the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution to the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835

    by Aline Helg ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Slave No More

    Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas

    by Aline Helg ...
    Translated by Lara Vergnaud ...
    Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • Inhuman Bondage

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  • The Accidental City

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  • The Atlantic World

    Europeans, Africans, Indians and their Shared History, 1400–1900

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  • This Vast Southern Empire

    Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

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  • Maroon Societies

    Rebel Slave Communities in the America

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  • South to Freedom

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