Winner of 2019 Outstanding First Book Prize by ASWAD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nEdited Issues in Peer-Reviewed Journals<\/b><\/p>\n
With Lavi\u00f1a, Javier. \u201cLa Post-Emancipaci\u00f3n en el Mundo Atl\u00e1ntico: S\u00edntesis y Nuevas Perspectivas de An\u00e1lisis,\u201d\u00a0Bolet\u00edn Americanista\u00a0<\/i>(forthcoming).<\/p>\n
With Ogundiran, Akinwumi. \u201cCommunity Engagement and Citizen Empowerment in Africa and the African Diaspora,\u201d\u00a0Ofo: Journal of Transatlantic Studies<\/i>, nos. 1 & 2 (June\/December 2013).<\/p>\n
Peer-Reviewed Articles<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cPlaces of Memory and Time Slips: Narratives of the \u2018Good Master\u2019 and the History of Brazilian Slavery,\u201d Oral History Review <\/em>44, Issue 2, September 2017, 237\u2013259. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cLos Ambiguos Efectos de la Fluidez y la Contingencia: La Post-emancipaci\u00f3n en el Brasil Frontera (Amazon\u00eda, 1888-1950)\u201d in \u201cLa Postemancipaci\u00f3n en las Am\u00e9ricas: S\u00edntesis y Nuevas Perspectivas de An\u00e1lisis\u201d, ed. Oscar de la Torre and Javier Lavi\u00f1a, Bolet\u00edn Americanista<\/em> 68 (2014), 101-120.<\/p>\n\u201c\u201cAre They Really Quilombos?\u201d Black Peasants, Politics, and the Meaning of Quilombo in Present-day Brazil,\u201d Ofo: Journal of Trans-Atlantic Studies<\/em> 3, nos. 1 & 2 (June\/December 2013), 101-122.<\/p>\n\u201c\u201cThe Land is Ours and We Are Free to Do All that We Want\u201d: Quilombos <\/em>and Black Protest in Amazonia, Brazil, 1917-1929,\u201d The Latin Americanist <\/em>56, no. 4 (2012), <\/em>33-56.<\/p>\n\u201cO Carimb\u00f3 e a Hist\u00f3ria Social da Grande Vigia, Par\u00e1, 1900-1950,\u201d Revista Estudos Amaz\u00f4nicos <\/em>IV, no. 2 (Bel\u00e9m, Brazil), 2010, 113-150.<\/p>\n\u201cLatinoamericanos en la Zona Bastarda: influencia latinoamericana en la cultura y la pol\u00edtica barcelonesas, 1980-2005\u201d, in Osamayor <\/em>17 [Pittsburgh-PA], 2006, pp. 81-95.<\/p>\nBook Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\nWith Paulo Cordeiro, \u201cMundos Sociais em Movimento: As Letras do Carimb\u00f3 na Vigia,\u201d in Paulo Cordeiro, O Carimb\u00f3 na Vigia <\/em>(Vigia \u2013 PA, Brazil: Edi\u00e7\u00e3o do Autor, 2010), 128-158.<\/p>\nBook Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\nReview of Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil<\/em> by Yuko Miki, The Americas<\/em> 76 (4), 720-721.<\/p>\nReview of Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia<\/em> by Claudia Leal, Hispanic American Historical Review<\/em> 99 (3), 566-568.<\/p>\nReview of An African American and Latinx History of the United States<\/em>, by Paul Ortiz, Journal of African American History <\/em>104 (4), 719-721.<\/p>\nReview of Matthias R\u00f6hrig Assun\u00e7\u00e3o, De caboclos a bem-te-vis. <\/em>Forma\u00e7\u00e3o do campesinato numa sociedade escravista: Maranh\u00e3o 1800-1850<\/em> (S\u00e3o Paulo: Annablume, 2015). Bulletin of Latin American Research<\/em> 37, no. 3 (2018), 370-372.<\/p>\n\u201cCrossroads and Transformations: New Scholarship on Abolition and the Post-Emancipation Period in Brazil,\u201d bibliographic essay about Celso Castilho, Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship<\/em> (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), and Walter Fraga, Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2016), Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe <\/em>28, no.2 (2017), 136-138.<\/p>\nReview of Peter M. Beattie, Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony <\/em>(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015), Canadian Journal of History <\/em>52, no. 1 (2017), 168-170.<\/p>\nReview of Camilia Cowling, Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro <\/em>(Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2013), Afro-\u00c1sia <\/em>51 (2016), 283-286.<\/p>\nReview of T\u00e2mis Parron, A Pol\u00edtica da Escravid\u00e3o no Imp\u00e9rio do Brasil, 1826-1865\u00a0<\/em>(Rio de Janeiro: Civiliza\u00e7\u00e3o Brasileira, 2011), Hispanic American Historical Review<\/em> 93 (2013), 125-127.<\/p>\nReview of Timothy James Lockley, Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record<\/em> (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2009). Florida Historical Quarterly <\/em>88, no.2 (2009), 280-282.<\/p>\nReview of James P. Woodward, A Place<\/em> in Politics: S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt <\/em>(Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009). Chronicle of Historical Studies<\/em> Vol. 6 (Winter 2008-2009), 260-263.<\/em><\/p>\nBook Translation<\/b><\/p>\n
George Reid Andrews, Afro-Latinoam\u00e9rica, 1800-2000<\/i>, Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2007. English to Spanish.<\/p>\n
Works in Progress<\/strong><\/p>\nThrown in the Cesspool: Godless Burials, Death, and Religion in Amazonian Plantations, 1780s-1888. Article manuscript. Target publication: Slavery & Abolition. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oscar de la Torre is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at UNC Charlotte. He obtained a PhD in History at the University of Pittsburgh in 2011, and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale University\u2019s Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, in 2014. He investigates slavery and the post-emancipation period in Brazil, Cuba, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3IZIw-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/oscar-de-la-torre-cueva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/oscar-de-la-torre-cueva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/oscar-de-la-torre-cueva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/oscar-de-la-torre-cueva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/oscar-de-la-torre-cueva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/oscar-de-la-torre-cueva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/oscar-de-la-torre-cueva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/oscar-de-la-torre-cueva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/oscar-de-la-torre-cueva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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