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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Luisa Marcela Ossa
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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate continental ancestries as one. Historically, an overwhelming majority of people of African and Asian descent were brought to the Americas as sources of labor to uphold the plantation, agrarian economies leading to complex relationships and interactions. The contributions to this collection examine various aspects of these connections. The authors bring to the forefront perspectives regarding history, literature, art, and religion and engage how they are manifested in these Afro-Asian relationships and interactions. They investigate what has received little academic engagement outside the acknowledgement that there are groups who are of African and Asian descent. In regard to their relationships with the dominant Europeanized center, references to both groups typically only view them as singular entities. What this interdisciplinary collection presents is a more cohesive approach that strives to place them at the center together and view their relationships in their historical contexts. **Review By bringing global Afro-Asian studies to the forefront, this volume proposes an innovative historical and literary approach in Latin American and Caribbean studies. It explores new epistemologies emerging from the transatlantic and transpacific cross-cultural relations and solidarity between people of African and Asian ancestry throughout the hemisphere. In particular, it addresses how these Afro-Asian contact zones and peripheral, silenced knowledges transformed, through the recovery of their repressed agencies, identitarian and national discourses in the Americas. (Ignacio Lopez Calvo, University of California, Merced) The essays collected this book by Ossa and Lee-Distefano present a formidable addition to Latin American, African, and Asian studieswhere the fields converge in vigorous and well-researched conversation with one another. (Sheridan Wigginton, California Lutheran University and President of the Afro-LatinAmerican Research Association) About the Author Luisa Marcela Ossa is associate professor of Spanish and area chair of the undergraduate Spanish program at La Salle University. Debbie Lee-DiStefano is professor of Spanish at Southeast Missouri State University.ContributorsDania Abreu-Torres & Linda Ainouche & Malathi Michelle Iyengar & Anne-Marie Lee-Loy & Kathleen Lopez & Mey-Yen Moriuchi & Zelideth Maria Rivas & Martin A. Tsang & Lisa Yun
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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate continental ancestries as one. Historically, an overwhelming majority of people of African and Asian descent were brought to the Americas as sources of labor to uphold the plantation, agrarian economies leading to complex relationships and interactions. The contributions to this collection examine various aspects of these connections. The authors bring to the forefront perspectives regarding history, literature, art, and religion and engage how they are manifested in these Afro-Asian relationships and interactions. They investigate what has received little academic engagement outside the acknowledgement that there are groups who are of African and Asian descent. In regard to their relationships with the dominant Europeanized center, references to both groups typically only view them as singular entities. What this interdisciplinary collection presents is a more cohesive approach that strives to place them at the center together and view their relationships in their historical contexts. **Review By bringing global Afro-Asian studies to the forefront, this volume proposes an innovative historical and literary approach in Latin American and Caribbean studies. It explores new epistemologies emerging from the transatlantic and transpacific cross-cultural relations and solidarity between people of African and Asian ancestry throughout the hemisphere. In particular, it addresses how these Afro-Asian contact zones and peripheral, silenced knowledges transformed, through the recovery of their repressed agencies, identitarian and national discourses in the Americas. (Ignacio Lopez Calvo, University of California, Merced) The essays collected this book by Ossa and Lee-Distefano present a formidable addition to Latin American, African, and Asian studieswhere the fields converge in vigorous and well-researched conversation with one another. (Sheridan Wigginton, California Lutheran University and President of the Afro-LatinAmerican Research Association) About the Author Luisa Marcela Ossa is associate professor of Spanish and area chair of the undergraduate Spanish program at La Salle University. Debbie Lee-DiStefano is professor of Spanish at Southeast Missouri State University.ContributorsDania Abreu-Torres & Linda Ainouche & Malathi Michelle Iyengar & Anne-Marie Lee-Loy & Kathleen Lopez & Mey-Yen Moriuchi & Zelideth Maria Rivas & Martin A. Tsang & Lisa Yun
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