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Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography is not quite what it seems.

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.

Jul 14, 2026
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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.

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. The project was funded by the Mellon Foundation. The editors were Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Caribbean_and_Afro%E2%80%93Latin_American_Biography
  2. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56391209
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