"("Are there any countries working to acknowledge the historical and cultural impact of their African roots?") Every s…"

"struggling for racial equality [in Latin America] is far behind the United States."

"We keep denying the importance of race because white people are becoming the minority."

"we’re not in a post racial state. Race is still a very important part of how all of us – globally – live our lives. A…"

"The way ideology is constructed in Latin America –if you claim Blackness or talk about race, it’s because you have so…"

"Whether we look at race as a fixed notion or culturally constructed concept it is very real. Race itself is an invent…"

"This kind of book should have been around when I was a kid because blackness was equated with being African-American.…"

"Afro-Latinos serve as bridges. The most obvious example would be Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. The Schomburg Center for B…"

"In the process of putting the book together, we discovered a whole series of people who were identified as being Afri…"

"In their introduction to the Afro-Latin@ Reader, the first major academic effort about Latin@s of African descent in …"