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Who are the Afro-Latin Americans?3 What historical contributions do they bring to their respective national polities? What is the nature of their identity? What happens to their identities as a result of migration to the United States? What do we know of the experience of the second and subsequent generations of Afro-Latin American immigrants categorized under the current social labels as “Afro-Latinas/os” in the United States? What is the impact of their growing presence within Latina/o populations, particularly with respect to the dynamics of race relations in the United States today? And, more generally, what are the possible goals, the prospects, and obstacles for coalition building between and among racial(ized) minorities and other groups in U.S. society today?
In a country of slaves, there are neither political enemies nor friends: there are some wise people who do business and an enormous mass that tuants nothing other than to obey. Moreover, there are whites, Blacks, and mulattos who must continue living together. And that, in the final analysis, is this country’s only difficulty.
—Baroness E. de Langsdorff, Brazil, 1842–18432
Many thanks to Elitza Bachvarova, Antonia Darder, Carlos de la Torre, Jorge Duany, and Silvio Torres-Saillant for their always helpful suggestions and incisive comments on this text. We also thank Ramona Alcalá for her research assistance in sections of this chapter.
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Oboler, S., Dzidzienyo, A. (2005). Flows and Counterflows: Latinas/os, Blackness, and Racialization in Hemispheric Perspective. In: Dzidzienyo, A., Oboler, S. (eds) Neither Enemies nor Friends. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982636_1
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