Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge with thanks the financial support we received from various sources: from the grant for the initial one-day workshop that spurred the whole process (funded by the Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of London), to the main grant from the AHRC (AH/S004823/1) and the additional funding from the University of Manchester (drawing on their UKRI ODA funds).
We are very grateful for the contributions made by the members of the wider project team – the co-investigators, advisors and research assistants: their unstinting support was central to the success of the project. Our heartfelt thanks go out to all the artists who worked with us. They are too numerous to mention them all here, but most of them feature in our virtual exhibition and are referred to in these pages – and some of them are co-authors of chapters in this book, while others feature in the book’s Curated Conversations. Their generosity is greatly valued and, from the comments they have made – informally and in the book’s Final Reflections – we believe that they also found the experience a valuable one.
Thanks to the Research Office of the School of Social Science, University of Manchester, which provided excellent logistical support, and to John McCrory (John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester), who designed and built the website for the virtual exhibition. And thanks, finally, to George Reid Andrews and Alejandro de la Fuente, general editors of the Afro-Latin America book series, who initially supported our book proposal; and to Cecelia Cancellaro, the commissioning editor at Cambridge University Press, her assistant Victoria Phillips and the production team at the Press (led by Lisa Carter), who have seen the whole process through.
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