The colonization of Latin America left behind a continent marred with a white supremacist caste system that exploited the Indigenous people and ransacked the lands of their riches.
Conquest, colonization, and enslavement frame Black and Indigenous history in Latin America, and its people feel the impact to this day. In his four-part PBS TV series Black in Latin America, the acclaimed African American historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. says the descendants of slaves brought to Latin America and South America don't identify as white or Black the way many Americans do, citing that in Brazil, there are 134 categories of Blackness to describe someone of African descent.
This collection may not have all the answers to the complex questions at the intersection of Blackness and Latin identities, but the titles here introduce Spanish-language listeners to Black and Brown voices that provide a first-person perspective as to what it means to be Black in America.
El sistema de justicia criminal de Estados Unidos funciona como un sistema contemporaneo de control racial - al relegar a millones de personas a un estatus de segunda clase....