Photographs From ‘Afro-Antillean Sentiment’

Abstract

From Africa to the Caribbean to Panama and to the United States and back, the history and culture of Panamanians of Afro-Antillean descent is layered with struggle and survival. These photographs document a culture that may not exist in the future, stitching together a representation of a generation for whom locality was everything, and a generation that have come from a time that while they did not feel a need to identify themselves, they also felt no need to question the continuity of their culture.

Keywords:

• Panamanians
• Afro-Antillean
• Africanness
• discrimination
• values
• locality
• cultural survival
• photographs
• emotion

Notes

Note

More images from photographer Rose Cromwell's ‘Sentimiento Afro-Antillano’ series can be viewed at http://www.rosecromwell.com