Black in Latin America

Season 1

Skip Gates travels to places in Latin America where Africa has touched the continent with lasting cultural results to explore what happens when African and Hispanic worlds meet.

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S1 E1 - Haiti and Dominican Republic: An Island Divided
April 20, 2011
54min
TV-PG
Join Professor Gates as he explores how race has been socially constructed in the Dominican Republic and as he tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic in Haiti.
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S1 E2 - Cuba: The Next Revolution
April 27, 2011
53min
16+
Find out how the culture, religion, politics and music of Cuba are inextricably linked to the importation of slaves.
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S1 E3 - Brazil: A Racial Paradise?
May 4, 2011
53min
13+
Discover how this "rainbow nation" is waking up to its legacy as the world's largest slave economy.
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S1 E4 - Mexico and Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet
May 11, 2011
53min
TV-PG
Travel to Mexico and Peru with Professor Gates as he explores the almost unknown history of the numbers of black people brought to these countries as early as the 16th and 17th centuries.
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