TY - BOOK ID - 79254849 TI - The politics of race in Panama : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention PY - 2014 SN - 9780813049861 9780813048857 0813048850 0813049865 0813050332 9780813050331 PB - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of minorities KW - Spanish-American literature KW - Panama KW - Race awareness in literature. KW - Blacks KW - Panamanian literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Audiencia de Panamá KW - Audiencia de Panamá del Nuevo Reino de Tierra Firme KW - Estado Federal de Panamá KW - Panama (Audiencia) KW - Real Audiencia de Panamá KW - Republic of Panama KW - República de Panamá KW - Tierra Firme KW - Race relations. KW - Black persons KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79254849 AB - Black Panamanians, unlike other Aftro-Latin communities, have traditionally separated themselves based on ancestral heritage: on one hand are those whose ancestors were slaves during the colonial period; on the other are those whose families arrived from the West Indies to help build the Panama Railroad and Canal. In this book, Watson assesses how Panamanian literature represents this historical and continuing tension. ER -