https://www.jstor.org/stable/981356?sid=primo&saml_data=eyJzYW1sVG9rZW4iOiJiNDQ1MzVkZS1iNDdkLTQ2OWUtYmQyNS0wMmRkODhmZjJmZmYiLCJlbWFpbCI6IlN0YWNleS5EaUxpYmVydG9AdWNmLmVkdSIsImluc3RpdHV0aW9uSWRzIjpbIjlkYjM3YmI0LWYzMjAtNDZhMy04NWYyLTc4NWFlZDE4YTNlMyJdfQ#metadata_info_tab_contents Directed by , Produced by , , , , In , Episode 4 (Arlington, VA: , 2011)53 minutes In a style similar to Wonders of the African World, Skip Gates will travel to places in Latin America where Africa has touched the continent with lasting cultural results to explore what happens when African and spanic worlds meet. In Mexico and Peru, Professor Gates explores the almost unknown history of the significant numbers of black peoplethe two countries together received far more slaves than did the U.S.and the worlds of culture that their descendants have created in Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico, the Costa Chica region on the Pacific, and in and around Lima, Peru. In a style similar to Wonders of the African World, Skip Gates will travel to places in Latin America where Africa has touched the continent with lasting cultural results to explore what happens when African and spanic worlds meet. In the Dominican Republic, explore how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of inter-marriage and how the countrys troubled history with Haiti informs notions about racial classification. In Haiti, hear the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic and investigate the slaves hard fight for liberation over Napoleon Bonapartes French Empire. In a style similar to Wonders of the African World, Skip Gates will travel to places in Latin America where Africa has touched the continent with lasting cultural results to explore what happens when African and spanic worlds meet. In Cuba Professor Gates finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music of this island are inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce its enormously profitable 19th century sugar industry, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castros Communist revolution in 1959. Directed by , Produced by , , , , In In a style similar to Wonders of the African World, Skip Gates will travel to places in Latin America where Africa has touched the continent with lasting cultural results to explore what happens when African and spanic worlds meet. In Brazil, Professor Gates goes behind the façade of Carnival to discover how this rainbow nation is waking up to its legacy as the worlds largest slave economy. You may also choose to jot down any thoughts or questions this unit inspired that you might want to revisit later for your final project. See the due date in the :
