Alvarez, Julia, 33–34, 161–181, 184–188, 192, 195–198, 203, 206, 218, 305, 312

Alvarez Nazario, Manuel, 5, 82, 119

ambia, 137

Amerindian, 8–11, 55–57, 60–61, 64, 87–90, 114, 139, 159, 204, 206, 244, 305

Amos (and Ayesu), 244–246, 258, 267–269, 282

Andrews, George Reid, 103, 149

“Angelitos negros,” 16–17, 106, 205

Angola, 145, 212, 254

Ankrah, Nii, 246, 248

Annan, Kofi, 257

aphorism, xv, 97

Arará, 91, 99, 134

Argentina, xix, 18–20, 218, 221

Aruna Nelson, 288–289

asere, 127–129, 137

Ashanti, 212, 224, 281

Assemblies of God, The, 258

Asuman, Kangidi, 246, 282, 292

Autobiography of a Runaway Slave. See Biografía de un cimarrón

axé, 4, 146, 311

Ayi Kushie, 279

Ayllón, Eva, 88

Azumah Nelson, 246–247, 278, 282, 284, 292

Azumah Nelson V, Nii, 248, 261, 281, 292

Azumah “The Professor” Nelson, 281, 288

Azumah II, Nii, 278, 290, 292

Babalú, 102

Baca, Susana, xx, 9

Bacalov, Luis Enrique, 218

Baeta, João Gonçalves, 245

Baeta, Robert Domingos, 244

Bahia, 226–229, 233–240, 244–248, 251, 254, 266–268, 284–285, 291, 302, 313

Bakongo, 120–122

“Balada de los dos abuelos,” 86

Bamba, La, 9–10, 20, 107

Bantu, 28–29, 82, 93, 100–101, 104, 109, 120, 122–125, 275, 306

Batista, Fulgencio, 17–18

bemba, 92–93, 106, 112, 133

Benin, xxv, 234–237, 244–245, 248, 281, 302

Berlin West Africa Conference, 213

Bight of Benin, 213, 235

bilongo, 91

Biografía de un cimarrón, 144, 243

biracial, 12–13, 15, 31, 34, 48, 64–67, 93, 141, 210, 221, 231, 264–266, 276

Black, xviii, xx–xxiii, 9, 1–2, 5–9, 12–27, 30–39, 41–54, 57–63, 66–73

Black Cuban, 91

Black Enterprise, xxi

Black heritage, 19

Black Latin, xxi, xxiii, xxvi, 19

Black music, xx, 9

Black people, xxi–xxii, 5, 10–12, 22–24, 35, 38–40, 45, 47, 53, 69, 87–88

Blanco Meaño, Andrés Eloy, 16–17, 205–206

blanqueamiento, 306, 312

Bolivar, Simón, 17

Bolivia, 19, 89

branqueamento, 312

brasilianidade, 139