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Minority Rights Group, eds. No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today. London, Minority Rights Publications, 1995. xii, 401 pp. appendix, index, illus.
Reviewed by Thomas Morton
Doctoral Candidate, Linguistics Department, University of Pennsylvania
Of the estimated 12 to 15 million Africans forcibly transported to the Western Hemisphere between 1501 and 1870, the number arriving in Portugueseand Spanish-speaking Latin America far exceeded the number taken to the United States. This is reflected in the decidedly black and
Afro-non-white-demographics of significant portions of these regions. Nevertheless, little is heard of the African experience in Latin America when compared to that of other territories of the Western Hemisphere. Until recently, the contemporary cultural, social, economic and political realities of Latin Americans of identifiable African descent received little attention, except from a relatively small group of specialists. The London-based Minority Rights Group addresses this lack of scholarship with the publication No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latins Today. This volume, written in English, consists of fifteen essays (country studies)...