Améfrica critically questions traditional concepts of miscegenation and syncretism and decenters Europe as the primary reference point in the constitution of the New World: “The so-called Latin America… is actually much more Amerindian and American than anything else.” In dialogue with broader currents of Pan-Africanism, the concept also offers an expanded perspective on this movement, marking both affinities and differences between Africa and its diasporas, while taking the latter as a place of enunciation. The exhibition results from research into the works in Jorge M. Pérez’s collection; among the many selections the catalog offers, highlighting the formal, thematic, and contextual relationships among these artists brings to light the relevance and contemporaneity of the concept of Americanity. It allows us to glimpse a vast territory in which national borders become less determinative than the cultural, political, economic, and symbolic connections that span and interconnect Afro-Atlantic spaces, contexts (physical, spiritual, and dreamlike), societies, and artists. Participating artists include Bisa Butler, Carrie Mae Weems, Chéri Samba, El Anatsui, Elizabeth Catlett, Ellen Gallagher, Faith Ringgold, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, Nick Cave, Sam Gilliam, and Theaster Gates.