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This Digital Educational Collection is available for $495 (regular institutional price $995). If your institution is experiencing exceptional budget limitations, please contact info@africanfilm.com to discuss additional pricing options.
African Retention and Identity in South America
Designed for courses in Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, History, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Ethnomusicology, Film and Media Studies, and related disciplines, this three-film collection examines the preservation of African cultural heritage, the struggle for recognition, and the recovery of Afro-descendant history in Peru, Chile, and Ecuador.
The collection includes:
Susana Baca: Memoria Viva profiles the internationally acclaimed singer and champion of Afro-Peruvian heritage. Through her music and her work with the Instituto Negrocontinuo, founded with her husband Ricardo Pereira, the film celebrates the preservation, exploration, and continued creation of Black Peruvian culture.
The Valley of Black Descendants (El Valle de los Negros) follows descendants of enslaved Africans in Chile’s Azapa Valley as they organize the first African census in the country’s history. Their campaign seeks official recognition from a state that concealed their African identity and culture for more than two centuries.
The Esmeraldas Beach addresses the historical invisibility of Afro-Ecuadorians and challenges incomplete narratives of Ecuador’s national history. Centered on the work of Juan García, the documentary highlights a community’s efforts to preserve its culture and transmit the rebellious memory of ancestors who fought for freedom.
Together, these documentaries explore how Afro-descendant communities preserve cultural memory while confronting historical erasure and exclusion. The collection provides an engaging framework for classroom discussion of African cultural retention, identity, music, enslavement, resistance, state recognition, historical memory, and the continuing struggle to make Black experiences visible within South American national histories.
Purchase includes perpetual institutional streaming access with Public Performance Rights (PPR) to all three films.
