| Pub Date: | 2016 |
| Genre: | Biographical dictionary |
| Isbn: | 978-0-199-93579-6 |
| Editor: | Franklin W. Knight Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography (DCALAB) is a six-volume, 2080-entry biographical dictionary that was published in May 2016 by Oxford University Press.[1] The project was funded by the Mellon Foundation.[2] The editors were Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.[3]
Described by Ben Vison III as a "remarkable feat of scholarship, coverage begins in 1492, and all Latin American and Caribbean countries and territories are included. To ensure this broad coverage, a call-out was made across the region for subjects to include.[4] Librarian Jessica Lewis described how the dictionary will be "a core resource for libraries in nations with African heritage!.[5]