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“Soldiers and Statesmen: Race, Liberalism, and the Paradoxes of Afro-Nicaraguan Military Service, 1844-1863.” In Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America: Race, Nation, and Community During the Liberal Period, edited by Nicola Foote and René Harder Horst, 42–58. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010.  

“‘The Cruel Whip’: Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua.” In Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place, edited by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe, 177–208. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010.

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