AfroLatinas and LatiNegras

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



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 Xenia Franca Lesley Feracho
The Black Woman as Leader in the Bunde and Bullerengue

Algris Xiomara Aldeano Vasquez



No me llames triguena. Claiming Puerto Rican Blackness in Adriana Parrilla's photography

Meaghan Jeanne Coogan



The Resistance in the Photographic Indexical Portrayal of Afro-Latina Women in Manuel Gonzalez de la Parra's Luces de raiz negra

Kerry Green

Part II: Challenging Hegemonic Spaces: Female Leadership and Visibility in Social Activism, Educational Resources, and Spiritual Expressions of Blackness



Representing Candomble in the Public Sphere: Black Priestess' Authorship in Brazilian Cultural Production

Jamie Lee Andreson



The Invisible Women: An Analysis of the Representation of Afro-Latinx Women in Spanish Language Textbooks

Lillie Padilla



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



Repairing the Broken Strands of Afro-Latina History in Mayra Santos Febres' Fiction" Karen S. Christian
Afro-Mexican Women in the Northern Frontier: Subalternity, Agency, and Power Dynamics in the 17th Century

Brenda Romero



Blurring Genres, Blurring Borders: Contemporary Poetic Memoirs of Afro-Dominicanas in the United States

Melissa Castillo Planas



Papi's Bridge: Towards a New Diasporic Dominican Identity in Clap When You Land

Keturah Nichols

Index

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African Diaspora Studies;Africana Studies;Black Latinas Identity;Caribbean Studies;Cultural Studies;Diaspora Studies;ethnicity studies;gender studies;Intersectional Feminism;Intersectionality;Latin American Studies;Latinx Studies;race;sexuality studies;Social Justice;Women's studies