Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas Art History and surfers to explore the

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right up to the looming Moon Tower itself--which holds Merriweather's secret

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and to play one leader against the other was a diplomatic task so childishly simple

Originally published in French in 2021 by les Éditions du remue-ménage

Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas Art History and surfers to explore theIndigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being racial paradises populated by an amalgamated cosmic race of mulattos and mestizos, Latin America and the Caribbean have long been sites of shifting exploitative strategies and ideologies, ranging from scientific racism and