African and Black DiasporaAfrican and Black Diaspora Editors Dr Fassil Demissie, Public Policy Studies, DePaul University, USA Dr Sandra Jackson, Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul University, USA Book Review Editor Dr Julie Moody-Freeman, African and Black Diaspora Studies, DePaul University, USA Production Assistant Juelle Daley, DePaul University, USA International Editorial Board Edward A. Alpers, University of California, USA Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University, USA Houston Baker, Vanderbilt University, USA Natalie Bennett, DePaul University, USA Filip De Boeck, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Eliane Cavalleiro, San Francisco, USA Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University, USA Nuruddin Farah, Cape Town, South Africa Michael Gomez, New York University, USA | Michael Hanchard, John Hopkins University, USA Amor Kohli, DePaul University, USA Zine Magubane, Boston College, USA J. Lorand Matory, Duke University, USA Achille Mbembe, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa ‘Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin, USA AbdouMalig Simone, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Lena Sawyer, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden Mimi Sheller, Drexel University, USA Ari Sitas, University of Cape Town, South Africa Julio Cesar de Tavares, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil Tyler Stovall, University of California-Berkeley, USA Maurice-Taonezvi Vambe, University of South Africa, South Africa ‘Tunde Zack-Williams, University of Central Lancashire, UK | International Advisory Board Robert L. Adams Jr., Fetzer Institute, USA Pal Aluwalia, University of South Australia Darrell Fields, Studio NV, California, USA Manthia Diawara, New York University, USA | Silvia Lorenso, University of Texas-Austin, USA | Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Brikbeck University of London, UK Charmaine Nelson, McGill University, Canada ‘Teresa Cruz e Silva, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique Zebebork Tadesse, Addis Abeba, EthiopiaAfrican and Black Diaspora Volume 5 Number 1 January 2012 Special Issue: Rewriting the African Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America Guest Editor: Robert L. Adams Jr Articles Preface Fassil Demissie 1 Rewriting the African Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America beyond disciplinary and national boundaries Robert Lee Adams Jr 3 An analysis of the role of the study of the African Diaspora within the field of Atlantic history Nathaniel Millett 21 Comparison and connection in the study of Afro-Latin America Mark Anderson 35 Africans, Afro-Brazilians and Afro-Portuguese in the Iberian Inquisition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Vanicléia Silva Santos 49 ‘Political changii’: race, political culture, and black civie activism in the carly Cuban republic Melina Pappademos 65 Bongé Ita: leopard society music and language in West Afri Western Cuba, and New York City hor L. Miller 85 El Puente: transnationalism among Cubans of English-speaking Caribbean descent Andrea Queeley 105 Constructing and promoting African Diaspora identity in the Dominican Republic: the emergence of Casa de Ia Identidad de las Mujeres Afro Kimberly Eison Simmons 123