Examines the full range of humanities and social science scholarship on people of African descent in Latin America.

1. Afro-Latin American studies: an introduction Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews; Part I. Inequalities: 2. The slave trade to Latin America: a historiographical assessment Roquinaldo Ferreira and Tatiana Seijas; 3. Inequality: race, class, gender George Reid Andrews; 4. Afro-indigenous interactions, relations, and comparisons Peter Wade; 5. Law, silence, and racialized inequalities in the history of Afro-Brazil Brodwyn Fischer, Keila Grinberg and Hebe Mattos; Part II. Politics: 6. Currents in Afro-Latin American political and social thought Frank Guridy and Juliet Hooker; 7. Rethinking black mobilization in Latin America Tianna Paschel; 8. 'Racial democracy' and racial inclusion: hemispheric histories Paulina Alberto and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof; Part III. Culture: 9. Literary liberties: the authority of Afrodescendant authors Doris Sommer; 10. Afro-Latin American art Alejandro de la Fuente; 11. A century and a half of scholarship on Afro-Latin American music Robin Moore; 12. Afro-Latin American religions Stephan Palmié and Paul Christopher Johnson; 13. Environment, space and place: cultural geographies of colonial Afro-Latin America Karl Offen; Part IV. Transnational Spaces: 14. Transnational frames of Afro-Latin experience: evolving spaces and means of connection, 1600-2000 Lara Putnam; 15. Afro-Latinos: speaking through silences and rethinking the geographies of blackness Jennifer A. Jones.