I. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAS PROJECT -- Keith Morrison : Middle Passage / Julie L. McGee -- II. SLAVERY, MIGRATION, AND RACIAL IDENTITY -- The African Diaspora in the Americas : the Caribbean Dimension / Franklin W. Knight -- Afro-Antillean Presence in the Latin American Melting Pot / Carla Guerrón Montero -- Puerto Ricans in the Harlem Riot of 1935 / Lorrin Thomas -- Rethinking "Racial Democracy" : Perspectives from Black Thinkers in Twentieth-Century Brazil / Paulina L. Alberto -- III. AFRICA IN THE ARTS : MIGRATION, IMPROVISATION, EXCHANGE -- Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean : Early Images of Slavery and Forced Migration in the Americas / Mónica Domínguez-Torres -- Improvisation in the Danzón and its Ties to Early New Orleans Jazz / Robin Moore -- Afrochic : Africa in the Modernist Imagination / Camara Dia Holloway -- True Blood : Colorblindness, Blanqueamiento, and Vampire Ethnicity in Castro's Cuba / Phillip Penix-Tadsen -- Introspection and Projection in Cuban Art / Colette Gaiter -- Hearing Reggaeton's African-American Address / Wayne Marshall -- Black-British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualizing Slavery / Eddie Chambers -- IV. BLACK AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE GLOBAL HUMANITIES -- Race and Representation in the Digital Humanities : an Inter-American Case Study / Ifeoma Nwankwo -- Black American Studies at the University of Delaware : Education Across the Lines / Carol Henderson.