This book] clarifies vividly many of the less obvious and complex issues behind the tensions shaping the North-South political-economic struggle. . . . Impressive in its scope and informational content. "Choice"

Jackson's work seeks to dispel the perception that the movement of third world nonaligned nations . . . is ineluctably anti-United States and pro-Soviet. . . . His] call for a new approach deserves attention. "Current History"

In "Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America," Richard L. Jackson explores literary Americanism through writings of black Hispanic authors such as Carlos Guillermo Wilson, Quince Duncan, and Nelson Estupinan Bass that in many ways provide a microcosm for the larger literature. Jackson traces the roots of Afro-Hispanic literature from the early twentieth-century Afrocriollo movement--the Harlem Renaissance of Latin America--to the fiction and criticism of black Latin Americans today. Black humanism arose from Afro-Hispanics' self-discovery of their own humanity and the realization...