This book shows the challenges inherent to the AfroLatina experience with a focus on Black women. The authors argue the analytical power of Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional approach enables resisting systems of power.
 
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction: Centering Black Women/Challenging Latinidad and Hegemonic Discourses
Rosita Scerbo and Concetta Bondi
 
Part I: Diasporic Rhythms and Visual Arts: Inteersecting Race and Gender in Afro-Descendent Photography, Music, and Dance
 
1. Opening up Black, female spaces: Dialogues with the Orishas, the City and the Mythic Space in "Banho de Folhas" by Luedji Luna and "Pra que me chamas" by Xênia França
Lesley Feracho
 
2. The Black Woman as Leader in the Bunde and Bullerengue
Algris Xiomara Aldeano Vásquez
 
3. No me llames trigueña. Claiming Puerto Rican Blackness in Adriana Parrilla's photography
Meaghan Jeanne Coogan
 
4. The Resistance in the Photographic Indexical Portrayal of Afro-Latina Women in Manuel González de la Parra's Luces de raíz negra
Kerry Green
 
Part II: Challenging Hegemonic Spaces: Female Leadership and Visibility in Social Activism, Educational Resources, and Spiritual Expressions of Blackness
 
5. Representing Candomblé in the Public Sphere: Black Priestess' Authorship in Brazilian Cultural Production
Jamie Lee Andreson
 
6. The Invisible Women: An Analysis of the Representation of Afro-Latinx Women in Spanish Language Textbooks
Lillie Padilla
 
7. Writing and Activism: A political Perspective of AfroLatina's Struggle in Colombia, Brazil and the Caribbean
Yesenia Escobar Espitia, Renata Dorneles Lima, Yoiseth Patricia Cabarcas, and Lindsay Gary
 
Part III: Re-Learning Latin America Black Past and Present: Colonial Texts and the Legacy of Afrodisporic Intergenerational Trauma
 
8. Repairing the Broken Strands of Afro-Latina History in Mayra Santos Febres' Fiction
Karen S. Christian
 
9. Afro-Mexican Women in the Northern Frontier: Subalternity, Agency, and Power Dynamics in the 17th Century
Brenda Romero
 
10. Blurring Genres, Blurring Borders: Contemporary Poetic Memoirs of Afro-Dominicanas in the United States
Melissa Castillo Planas
 
11. Papi's Bridge: Towards a New Diasporic Dominican Identity in Clap When You Land
Keturah Nichols
 
Index
 
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