ABSTRACT
Current educational curriculums have done a stellar job at convincing the world that the history of Black people in the Americas begins and ends with the transatlantic slave trade. Even now, South America’s poster child is usually an inaccurate depiction of the continent’s real racial makeup, being that outside of Africa, South American countries, namely Brazil and Colombia, have among the world’s largest populations of Black African descendants. This part will home in on cultural contributions from South America, such as the samba, merengue and tango, whilst spotlighting North America’s influential community-based movements of the modern day, alongside how critical the contributions of Black art, politics and languages have been in forming such a huge organism. This part will also explore the Great Migration and the Harlem cultural Renaissance. This part will help teachers support Black students to deepen their racial esteem and understanding of the Black diaspora’s communal and cultural histories whilst being exposed to the vastness of what it means to be Black in the Americas.
