Historias 75 – Oscar de la Torre on the Amazon’s Black Peasantry

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Dr. Oscar de la Torre of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte talked with Steven about the Amazon’s Black peasantry.  Their engaging conversation takes us into Amazonian archives that include childcare, and ultimately to Cuba.  Check out Professor de la Torre’s book, The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945!