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Slave No More

Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas

By: Aline Helg

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Slave No More

Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas

By: Aline Helg

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 and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. Helg not only underscores the agency of those who managed to become "free people of color" before abolitionism took hold but also assesses in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized. While recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg articulates four primary liberation strategies: flight and marronage; manumission by legal document; military service, for men, in exchange for promised emancipation; and revolt—along with a willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and in the context of national and international political movements. Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage, Slave No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery.

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UNC Press Books

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1469649640

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Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835

By: Aline Helg

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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 comparative perspective of the Americas. Concentrating on the Caribbean region, she explores the role of free and enslaved peoples of full and mixed African ancestry, elite whites, and Indians in the late colonial period and in the processes of independence and early nation building. Why did race not become an organizational category in Caribbean Colombia as it did in several other societies with significant African-descended populations? Helg argues that divisions within the lower and upper classes, silence on the issue of race, and Afro-Colombians' preference for individual, local, and transient forms of resistance resulted in particular spheres of popular autonomy but prevented the development of an Afro-Caribbean identity in the region and a cohesive challenge to Andean Colombia. Considering cities such as Cartagena and Santa Marta, the rural communities along the Magdalena River, and the vast uncontrolled frontiers, Helg illuminates an understudied Latin American region and reintegrates Colombia into the history of the Caribbean.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807875872

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9780807875872

Our Rightful Share

The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912

By: Aline Helg

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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 in 1902, Afro-Cubans remained marginalized in all aspects of society. After the wars for independence, in which they fought en masse, Afro-Cubans demanded change politically by forming the first national black party in the Western Hemisphere. This challenge met with strong opposition from the white Cuban elite, culminating in the massacre of thousands of Afro-Cubans in 1912. The event effectively ended Afro-Cubans' political organization along racial lines, and Helg stresses that although some cultural elements of African origin were integrated into official Cuban culture, true racial equality has remained elusive.

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UNC Press Books

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146961586X

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Our Rightful Share

The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912

By: Aline Helg

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The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912

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Latin America 1810-2010

Dreams and Legacies

By: Claude Auroi,Aline Helg

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Latin America 1810-2010

Dreams and Legacies

By: Claude Auroi,Aline Helg

The book analyses present Latin American issues in their historical course since independence (beginning 1810) and its aftermath, up to the contemporary period. The authors focus on political, economic, social, environmental and cultural developments.It examines the legacies of the past and the multiple changes that have taken place in the last two centuries. Today's situation suggests that modernization is well under way and will continue. Offering broad insight into present and future concerns, the book enables readers to evaluate potential areas of economic and social growth, as well as assess risks stemming from past events.

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World Scientific

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1848168462

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Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835

By: Aline Helg

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Artistic Migration

Reframing Post-War Italian Art, Architecture, and Design in Brazil

By: Aline Coelho Sanches

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Reframing Post-War Italian Art, Architecture, and Design in Brazil

By: Aline Coelho Sanches

Artistic Migration: Reframing Post-War Italian Art, Architecture, and Design in Brazil investigates a selection of works by Italian artists and architects, and an art critic and dealer, who immigrated to Brazil after World War II, and were involved in the first activities and opportunities created by the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP). Although foreigners, these experts, namely Bramante Buffoni, Roberto Sambonet, Lina Bo Bardi, Giancarlo Palanti, and Pietro Maria Bardi, were engaged in the construction of paths for Brazilian art, architecture, and design, in production marked by the intertwining of artistic disciplines. By examining the works produced between 1946 and 1991, and focusing on the relationship between art and architecture, with previously unexplored cases, the text investigates how these actors engaged in the dilemmas of Brazilian culture and became part of its invention. The intention is to understand the nature and meaning of this recognizable experience, the continuities of and ruptures from modern architectural, art and design ideals, pre-war experience, and immigration, illuminating a complex framework of relationships with local ideas. The approach and the extensive archival research in Italy and Brazil adopted for the book sheds new light on critically rethinking and reframing Italian and Brazilian cultural events, and will be of interest to architects, researchers, teachers, and students interested in the history of architecture, museums, design, and art.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429632673

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The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

By: Richard Graham,Thomas E. Skidmore,Aline Helg,Alan Knight

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The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

By: Richard Graham,Thomas E. Skidmore,Aline Helg,Alan Knight

From the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s, many Latin American leaders faced a difficult dilemma regarding the idea of race. On the one hand, they aspired to an ever-closer connection to Europe and North America, where, during much of this period, "scientific" thought condemned nonwhite races to an inferior category. Yet, with the heterogeneous racial makeup of their societies clearly before them and a growing sense of national identity impelling consideration of national futures, Latin American leaders hesitated. What to do? Whom to believe? Latin American political and intellectual leaders' sometimes anguished responses to these dilemmas form the subject of The Idea of Race in Latin America. Thomas Skidmore, Aline Helg, and Alan Knight have each contributed chapters that succinctly explore various aspects of the story in Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, and Mexico. While keenly alert to the social and economic differences that distinguish one Latin American society from another, each author has also addressed common issues that Richard Graham ably draws together in a brief introduction. Written in a style that will make it accessible to the undergraduate, this book will appeal as well to the sophisticated scholar.

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University of Texas Press

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0292738579

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9780292738577

Latin America 1810-2010

Dreams and Legacies

By: Claude Auroi,Aline Helg

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Dreams and Legacies

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Slave No More

Slave No More

Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835

Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835

Our Rightful Share

Our Rightful Share

Our Rightful Share

Our Rightful Share

Latin America 1810-2010

Latin America 1810-2010

Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835

Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835

Artistic Migration

Artistic Migration

The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

Latin America 1810-2010

Latin America 1810-2010

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