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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE AFRO-BOLIVIAN COMMUNITY

LINKS:

  • Afro-Bolivians
  • Afro-Bolivians push for Political Recognition
  • Status of Afro-Bolivian Spanish Features: Decreolization or Vernacular Universals?
  • Hidden Kingdom of the Afro-Bolivians
  • Afro-Latin Americans: A Rising Voice
  • Minority Rights Group: Afro Bolivians
  • We of the Saya, Documentary Film
  • Saya Afrobolivana
  • TEXT SOURCES:

    Angola Maconde, Juan, “Las raices africanas en la historia de Bolivia,” in Sheila Walker, (compiladora), Conocimiento Desde Adentro: Los afrosudamericanos hablan de sus pueblos y sus historias, 2 vol’s… La Paz, Bolivia: Fundacion PIEB, 2010.

    Angola Maconde, Juan. Raíces de un pueblo: cultura afroboliviana. La Paz: Producciones CIMA, 1990.

    Busdiecker, Sara. “The Emergence and Evolving Character of Contemporary Afro-Bolivian Mobilization.” In New Social Movements in the African Diaspora: Challenging Global Apartheid, edited by Leith Mullings. Palgrave Macmillian, 2009.

    Brockington, Lolita Gutierrez. Blacks, Indians and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550-1782. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

    Crespo R., Alberto. Esclavos Negros en Bolivia. La Paz: Academia Nacional de Ciencias, 1977.

    Lipski, John. “Afro-Bolivian Spanish.” Iberoamericana. 2009

    Ortiz, Max Portugal. La Esclavitud Negra En Las Epocas Colonial y Nacional de Bolivia. La Paz: Instituto Boliviano de Cultura, 1977.

    Templeman, Robert. “We Are the People of the Yungas, We Are the People of the Saya Race.” In Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, vol. 1, 426-44, edited by Norman Whitten, Jr., and Arlene Torres. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.