Publisher's Synopsis
Africamericanos is the first groundbreaking research, exhibition and visual production project that seeks to review and shed light to the configuration of imaginaries associated with Afrodescendant communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. It offers a striking and powerful visual survey that gathers historical images from important photographic archives and combines them with contemporary productions commissioned for this project. The book include texts by renowned African American writers Abraham Noahón, Sheila S. Walker and Germán Rey. This exhibition catalogue includes images by Pierre Verger, Maya Goded, Sandra Eleta, Nelson Garrido, Cristina de Middel and the Collection of Instituto Moreira Salles to name a few. This is the first time a visual survey of this scope has been gathered. The photographs and documentation is from many of the main archives, libraries and historical newspaper, as well as artistic projects and documentaries made by members of the community.
