FILM REVIEW

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Notes

1. Hughes, L., 1993. I wonder as i wonder: an autobiographical journey. New York: Rienhard.

2. Hughes, 1993, p. 245.

3. A companion book to the documentary with the same title was recently published byNew York University Press. 

4. Davis, B., 2010. Afterword. In: D. Eltis and D. Richardson,Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

5. Davis, 2010.

6. Sheller, M., 2003. Consuming the Caribbean: from Arawaks to Zombies. New York: Routledge.

7. See the reason why Henry Louis Gates chose the six countries: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/black-in-latin-america/featured/qa-with-professor-henry-louis-gates-jr/164/. Unfortunately, there is no mention of Central America where the Atlantic slave trade also scattered African slaves

8. Henry Louis Gates, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/black-in-latin-america/featured/qa-with-professor-henry-louis-gates-jr/164/ (accessed 28 August 2011).

9. The film created considerable debate among scholars in the area of African Studies. A special issue on ‘Wonders of the African World’ documentary including Henry Louis Gates's response to his critics was published in West Africa Review, Vol. 1 No. 2, 2000 which was later republished in The Black Scholar. See: http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/war/article/view/406 (accessed 28 August 2011).

10. Miami Herald, 2007. Afro-Latin: a rising voice, 10 June. Online at: http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/afrolatin/part1/index.html (accessed 15 September 2011).

11. David Eltis and David Richardson in their new book provide a higher figure for the Atlantic Slave trade which ‘resulted in the forced deportation of 12.5 million Africans to the New World’. See Eltis, D. and D. Richardson, 2010. Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

12. Gates, H.L., Jr, 2011. Blacks in Latin America. New York: New York University Press, p. 2.

13. Hugh, T., 1997, The slave trade: the story of the Atlantic slave trade, 1440–1870. New York: Simon & Schuster.

14. Race Report: Inter-American Dialogue, January 2003. Online at: http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/Race%20Report%202003%20-%20Afro-Descendents%20in%20Latin%20America,%20How%20Many_.pdf (accessed 16 September 2011).

15. See an excellent interactive map produced on Afro Latin by the MiamiHerald.com at: http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/afrolatin/multimedia/map.html.

16. Although some countries with large Black populations, such as Brazil and Colombia, disaggregate socioeconomic data by race, most countries do not, making it extremely difficult to find good quantitative data on the status of Black populations. Despite these data limitations, household surveys and anecdotal evidence from across the region point to a correlation between African descent and political, economic, and social marginalization.