AfroLatinas and LatiNegras

Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective

Rosita Scerbo, Concetta Bondi

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978754423
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

AfroLatinas as a subject of scholarship are woefully underrepresented, and this edited volume, AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, offers an important and timely intervention. The consistent attention to AfroLatinas' agency across all the chapters is empowering and attentive to the difficult circumstances of asserting that agency, and to the tremendous breadth of what agency can look like. The authors argue for the analytical power of the concept of Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional approach enables: evading, overthrowing, and resisting systems of power. Through the study of multiple cultural expressions of Blackness, such as photography, colonial inquisition records, dance, music, fiction, non-fiction, poetic memoir, and religious expression, and throughout different region of the Americas, the chapter contributors of this book consider the relationship that social and historical processes, such as sovereignty and colonialism, have on narrative and cultural production. Rosita Scerbo, Concetta Bondi, and the contributors acknowledge that racial and gender equity cannot exist without Intersectionality, and the inclusion of activist voices broadens this volume's reach and links theory to praxis.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Diasporic Rhythms and Visual Arts
• Opening Up Black Spaces, Female Spaces
• The Black Woman as Leader in the Bunde and Bullerengue
• No me llames trigueña, soy negra
• The Resistance in the Photographic Indexical Portrayal of Afro-Latina Women in Manuel González de
• Challenging Hegemonic Spaces
• Representing Candomblé in the Public Sphere
• The Invisible Women
• Writing and Activism
• Relearning Latin America Black Past and Present
• Repairing the Broken Strands of Afro-Latina History in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Fiction
• Afro-Mexican Women in the Northern Frontier
• Blurring Genres, Blurring Borders
• Papi’s Bridge
• Index
• About the Contributors