Undoubtedly, Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean is a relevant work not only for scholars but also for students interested in race, ethnicity, gender, culture, literature, history and Afro-Caribbean religions. This necessary book that contributes enormously to a field of studies just recently addressed by the academy: the cultural and racial intermixing of Asian and African peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, and their history and contributions to build nation state politics and identity.

Manuel Apodaca Valdez, Professor of Spanish World Languages & Cultures, University of Southern Indiana

With Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean, editors Luisa Marcela Ossa and Debbie Lee-DiStefano have provided us an admirable collection of innovative and forward-thinking scholarship that destabilizes and therefore enlivens the disciplines of Latin American Studies, African Diaspora Studies, and Asian Studies. . . . This is a much-needed volume, one that opens lines of inquiry and research possibilities for students and scholars of the Americas, Asia, and Africa alike. Within the academy, it is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students who will find scholarship that builds on the legacies of Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, and Kathleen Lopez, among others. It is a generative and provocative collection, one that has the potential to serve as a foundational text for more work in the studies of the Americas.

Hispania

By bringing global Afro-Asian studies to the forefront, this volume proposes an innovative historical and literary approach in Latin American and Caribbean studies. It explores new epistemologies emerging from the transatlantic and transpacific cross-cultural relations and solidarity between people of African and Asian ancestry throughout the hemisphere. In particular, it addresses how these Afro-Asian contact zones and peripheral, silenced knowledges transformed, through the recovery of their repressed agencies, identitarian and national discourses in the Americas.

Ignacio López Calvo, University of California, Merced

The essays collected this book by Ossa and Lee-Distefano present a formidable addition to Latin American, African, and Asian studies—where the fields converge in vigorous and well-researched conversation with one another.

Sheridan Wigginton, California Lutheran University and President of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association