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.
[1][2] The editors were Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.[3] Described by Ben Vinson III as a "remarkable feat of scholarship", coverage begins in 1492, and all Latin American and Caribbean countries and territories are included.
[3] 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".