Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Critical Research and Perspectives

Melanie A. Medeiros, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781978836303, 9781978836310
• eBook ISBN: 9781978836327
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Politica globale

Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives employs an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to examine Black cisgender women's social, cultural, economic, and political experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents critical empirical research emphasizing Black women's innovative, theoretical, and methodological approaches to activism and class-based gendered racism and Black politics. While there are a few single-authored books focused on Black women in Latin American and Caribbean, the vast majority of the scholarship on Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean has been published as theses, dissertations, articles, and book chapters. This volume situates these social and political analyses as interrelated and dialogic and contributes a transnational perspective to contemporary conversations surrounding the continued relevance of Black women as a category of social science inquiry. Many of the contributing authors are from Latin American and Caribbean countries, reflecting a commitment to representing the valuable observations and lived experiences of scholars from this region. When read together, the chapters offer a hemispheric framework for understanding the lasting legacies of colonialism, transatlantic slavery, plantation life, and persistent socio-economic and cultural violence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword: Reconfiguring the Politics of Knowledge: Writing Transnational Black Feminism from the South
• Introduction
• 1. Reclaiming a Legacy: Black Women’s Presence and Perspectives in the Brazilian Social Sciences
• 2. Beyond Intercultural Mestizaje: Toward Black Women’s Studies on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
• 3. The Significance of “Communists Wearing Panties” in the Jamaican Left Movement (1974–1980)
• 4. Exercising Diversity: From Identity to Alliances in Brazil’s Contemporary Black Feminism
• 5. “This Isn’t to Get Rich”: Double Morality and Black Women Private Tutors in Cuba
• 6. A “Bundle of Silences”: Untold Stories of Black Women Survivors of the War in Colombia
• 7. The Burden of Las Bravas: Race and Violence against Afro-Peruvian Women
• 8. A Creole Christmas: Sexual Panic and Reproductive Justice in Bluefields, Nicaragua
• 9. Digital Black Feminist Activism in Brazil: Toward a Repoliticization of Aesthetics and Romantic Relationships
• Notes on Contributors
• Index