The View from Chocó:: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the present, and their hopes for the future

by Karen Juanita Carrillo

"The View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the present, and their hopes for the future" is an introduction to the lives of Blacks in Colombia. Afro-Colombians live in a resource-rich yet remote region of Colombia. They only recently won recognition as one of that nation's distinct ethnic groups. But Colombia's on-going civil war has led many Afro-Colombians to reach even farther than their nation's borders for many have made their way to the United States as refugees and as political activists working for peace in their homeland. "The View from Chocó" introduces Americans to the lives and struggles of a too-long neglected community of Colombian Blacks.

56 pages, Paperback

First published April 13, 2010

About the author

KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO is a Brooklyn, New York-based writer and photographer. She specializes in covering African American and Afro-Latino history, literature, and politics.

Carrillo is a co-founder of the website www.Afropresencia.org. She is also the author of:

--African American-Latino Relations in the 21st Century: When Cultures Collide (Praeger, May 2017; ISBN-10: 9781440829611, ISBN-13: 1440829616)

--African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, June 2012; ISBN: 978-1-59884-360-6),

--Bibliography Of Life In The Black Americas (December 2012; ASIN: B00AVE92J0), and

--The View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian Past, Their Lives in the Present, and Their Hopes for the Future (May 2010; ISBN: 1451565275 / 1-4515-6527-5).