Unwritten Afro-Iberian Memories and Histories
Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Portugal and Spain
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- English
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Unwritten Afro-Iberian Memories and Histories
Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Portugal and Spain
About this book
This book sketches out an innovative Afro-Iberian mosaic that puts forgotten memories and histories into circulation, constructing an Afro-Iberian past that is critical of the cultural racialization of Spaniards and Portuguese. It builds an early late modern and contemporary Afro-Iberian history and approaches African and Maghrebi experiences and memories in order to explain the close relation between race, class, ethnicity and gender in Portugal and Spain between 1850 and 2021.
The book approaches the African presence in the Iberian Peninsula by identifying and documenting the traces of these population groups in Spain and Portugal. Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Sociology are some of the fields that weave together two stories in parallel that are little known: the similarities and differences in the social participation of Africans in Spain and Portugal; the degree of influence that the sociopolitical framework has had on Afro-Iberian coexistence and visibility; and the degree of historical depth that Iberian notions have about what is African. The volume promotes the study of unknown experiences of Africans in Europe that may allow future critical comparisons on the construction of what is Euro-African and Afro-European.
As a result, the contributions offer an excellent analysis of the similarities and differences between the narratives and practices of African otherness of two Western European countries marked by twilight overseas empires, favouring re-readings of common Iberian-African and Afro-Iberian historical recognition. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction – Unwritten Afro-Iberian memories and histories: Race, ethnicity and gender in Portugal and Spain
- 1 Shifting representations, ambiguous bodies: African colonial subjects in nineteenth-century Spain
- 2 African women in Iberia. The Fernandino elite in Barcelona
- 3 African women’s trajectories and the Casa dos Estudantes do Império
- 4 Black extras and actors in Francoist cinema
- 5 Batida and the politics of sonic agency in Afro-Lisboa
- 6 Leandro Mbomio, the “Black Picasso”: Spanish state propaganda, Blackness, and neocolonialism in Equatorial Guinea
- 7 Racial rhetoric in black and white: Situational whiteness in Francoist Spanish Guinea through Misión blanca
- 8 Precarious lives, invisible deaths. A history of community funeral management among Moroccans in Catalonia
- 9 Induced vulnerability: The consequences of racialization for African women in an emergency shelter in Catalonia (Spain)
- Index