Iβm an African-American that is currently living in Argentina. I never realized this until recently. In the time period between the 1950βs through the 1970βs most of the African wars for independence were fought, uprisings and riots were breaking out across the US, the UK and the anglophone Caribbean and in the francophone Caribbean and Africa people were writing about negritude.
I understand that the European caste system was different from American segregation. But why did this revolutionary attitude take hold in Angola and Mozambique but not Brazil? What set francophone Latin America apart from the Spanish/Portuguese speaking countries?
There were numerous socialist revolutions popping up across Latin America at the time, why was there no separate movement for black Spanish/Portuguese speaking Latinos?
Edit: I should add that I asked this question on r/asklatinamerica before, it looks like I got one response from somebody that was shadowbanned. Both gave an answer that I know to be false and that is βblack people were just as poor and treated just as poorly as everybody elseβ.
I know that this is false, unless the βeverybody elseβ only includes the native groups. Until around 1950, Cosa Rica has Jim Crowe style segregation laws that only allowed Afro-Costa Ricans to live in the Provence of LimΓ³n. Afro-Brazilians earn less money than white Brazilians (my wife is Brazilian so I know more about Brazilian race relations than I do about other countries in Latin America). I visited Cartagena Colombia with my wife. We went to a beach on the island of BarΓΊ and I was shocked to see that I was the only black person that was actually there on vacation. I could go on but you get the point that Iβm trying to make.
Hello everyone! Iβm Fabio Rojas, Sociologist and Professor at Indiana University Bloomington.
Iβm the author of βFrom Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Disciplineβ (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).
In honor of Black History Month, I thought it would be fun to visit Reddit for a conversation on this topic, on the history of the civil rights movement more broadly, and how these play into the social change we are seeing today.
Ask me anything!
EDIT: Iβm going to wrap up the AMA for now. Thanks to everyone who participatedβthe questions were great! I may check back a bit later today and answer a few more questions if any new ones have trickled in. And thanks to Learn Liberty as well for arranging the AMA. If youβre interested in learning more about my work relating to the civil rights movement, I would invite you to check out the episode of Learn Liberty Live that I recently did with them. You can see their other videos at /r/learnliberty.
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The book must be written by an academic historian and published by an academic press.
1st para. Main arguments
Body paragraph, arguments in more detail and how it is supported.
conclusion. strengths and weaknesses of the book (was it persuasive? why or why not?
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Need done at most by tomorrow morning.
The book must be written by an academic historian and published by an academic press.
1st para. Main arguments
Body paragraph, arguments in more detail and how it is supported.
conclusion. strengths and weaknesses of the book (was it persuasive? why or why not?
DM for inquires
Need done at most by tomorrow morning.
